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From: odlin@reed.UUCP (The Master of Tae-Kwon-Leap)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.games.bugs
Subject: Re: The patches posted to comp.sources.games
Message-ID: <12634@reed.UUCP>
Date: 3 May 89 05:21:40 GMT
References: <1501@scicom.AlphaCDC.COM> <12619@reed.UUCP> <12624@reed.UUCP> <12627@reed.UUCP>
Reply-To: odlin@reed.UUCP (The Master of Tae-Kwon-Leap)
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In article <12627@reed.UUCP> odlin@reed.UUCP (Iain Odlin) writes:
>>  -The game starts you out with zero population now.  "Boy, what a growth
>>   vector!"
>
>  This is not as bad as it first seemed.  You *DO* start with no population.
>  However, population spontaneously generates after a turn...

  ...*SOME* of the time.  The rest of the time, the program continues
  believing you have no population and no maximum population and eventually
  coerses doplanet into dividing by zero, thus core dumping.

  Has anyone fixed this problem?

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