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From: odlin@reed.UUCP (Iain Odlin)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.games.bugs
Subject: Re: GALACTIC BLOODSHED
Message-ID: <12665@reed.UUCP>
Date: 5 May 89 23:06:24 GMT
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Reply-To: odlin@reed.UUCP (Iain Odlin)
Organization: Atreides' House of Exotic Architecture
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In article <12663@reed.UUCP> smq@ssyx.ucsc.edu writes:
>>  -The game starts you out with zero population now.  "Boy, what a growth
>>  vector!"
>
>well, gee.  the sector it gives you as a starting point has the right
>population; the population listed on the planet is updated every turn, and
>when you first enroll it hasnt done a turn on that planet yet.  This
>corrects itself next turn.

  If this were the case, I wouldn't have posted the problem.  It only corrects
  itself part of the time.  Usually, when the fourth player joins, the poor
  game never figures out what his maxpopn is and dumps a core when it needs
  to use that variable as a divisor.

>> -The help command now locks the game up some of the time with a "sh -c"
>
>I have no idea what this is doing.

  I just had my TERM variable set to vt100 while using a rainbow.  It was
  my problem, not a problem with the game.

>> BTW, the power command displays an inaccurate value for population.
>> That, and there is no documentation for the power command.
>
> Come on, are Docs *REALLY* *THAT* important???

  When they are the only way to figure out how to play the bloody game, YES;
  They are really that important.

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