Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!munnari.oz.au!uhccux!wiliki!wkwok
From: wkwok@wiliki.eng.hawaii.edu (William Kwok)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.games.bugs
Subject: Re: Conquer 4.8 bugs
Keywords: conquer4.8 production bugs bug-spray conquer
Message-ID: <6580@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu>
Date: 13 Feb 90 21:24:35 GMT
References: <22348@uhnix1.uh.edu>
Sender: news@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu
Reply-To: wkwok@wiliki.eng.hawaii.edu (William Kwok)
Organization: University of Hawaii, College of Engineering
Lines: 25

In article <22348@uhnix1.uh.edu> cosc7m5@uhnix1.uh.edu (Phantom of UHouston) writes:
>
>Morn world,
>  I have a problem.  It seems that when ever any of my players use the
>(P)roduction option, they get a core dump and rudly kicked out of the games.
>I do have one player who can use it without any problems.  Does anyone have
>any ideas?  Let me know, or post if it is a big thing.  Thanks!

This has happened to me on several occasions while accessing the
(T)rade screen.  When I attempt to re-enter conquer, a message informs
me that my nation is already logged in.  

While I'm at it, I remember exploiting a bug in the older versions of
conquer.  I haven't tried it recently so I don't know if the recent patches
have fixed the problem.  Here's what I did:  In a city sector with N
civilians, I attempted to move M civilians to an adjacent sector, with M
greater than N.  A warning message informs me what I'm about to do is
impossible but it appears I'm allowed to do it anyway.  The number of 
civilians in the city is now a negative number!  I thought, "Hmm, maybe
the program will treat the negative number as an unsigned number."
Sure enough, I noticed my gold production in that sector increased
dramatically after update.  

William Kwok
wkwok@wiliki.eng.hawaii.edu | wiliki!wkwok@uunet.uu.net