Re: NP bug fixed

James Frediani (ferpo@netdex.com)
Mon, 13 Jul 1998 05:08:38 -0700

While I agree that the bugs are annoying, and they do take the fun out of
the game, Rich cannot go back and retroactively "fix" it for you and not do
it for everybody. You might be better off the way you are. I mean, how do
you know
something bad to you wasn't averted, say, 10 turns ago? Do we turn back the
clock and resume the game from there with the bug fixed and that error
corrected?

Not everybody bleats to the list about the bugs. Some send their messages
to Rich and recall that he _did_ tell everyone that he does _not_ fix all
bugs.
I feel that is unfortunate, but if I don't like it, the best way I have to
complain about it is to stop paying the man $2.50 a turn.

Now let's be sure that we all understand that I am _not_ saying you should
stop complaining about bugs. I _am_ saying that retroactive compensation
for this
particular bug goes back farther than you think and _would_ have changed the
flow of things _significantly_.

Jim Frediani

-----Original Message-----
From: Vansevenant Dominik <Dominik.Vansevenant@telenet.be>
To: minne@mail.dma.be <minne@mail.dma.be>; 'Greg Lindahl' <lindahl@pbm.com>
Cc: g2-list@pbm.com <g2-list@pbm.com>
Date: Monday, July 13, 1998 12:06 AM
Subject: RE: NP bug fixed

>But will Ruben then receive the spells?
>
>It is not the fix that counts for Ruben, it are the spells he is worried
>about. Off course the bug should be fixed, but it isn't enough.
>
>The mage he 'took over' was mine and he studied over 50 turns, not
>always at full speed, but fast enough and with enough effort. I recieved
>my 7 NP's back but I'd hate it to see all that effort get wasted.
>
>I don't think that it would be a problem for Rich with such expertise of
>programming tactics to adapt the code/database to give a player what he
>is entitled to. What is the harm to the game to just enter the database
>and add the spells to the noble? It isn't taking the game out of
>balance, it is straighting out the consequences of a bug.
>
>I agree with the text in the players manual that if you don't like bugs
>not to play, but this is really annoying and takes the fun out of the
>game.
>
>Dominick
>
>> ----------
>> From: Greg Lindahl[SMTP:lindahl@pbm.com]
>> Sent: Monday, July 13, 1998 2:13 AM
>> To: minne@mail.dma.be
>> Cc: g2-list@pbm.com
>> Subject: Re: NP bug fixed
>>
>> > Can you give an estimation on when you can look into the eating of
>> the dead
>> > code ?
>> > Will it be fixed automaticaly together with the other bug as Mr
>> Lindahl
>> > suggested ?
>>
>> I suspect the bug seen in "eating of the dead" will be fixed --
>> getting a value of 72000 for the NPs for a noble would sound like an
>> unitialized variable to me.
>>
>> -- g
>>
>

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