I think Rich has build in a lot of "GOD-functions", remember how he
destroyed the rogue garrison and the boat in the Yellowleaf province. I
think there are other examples I am not aware of. Maybe the "makemegod"
function is really valid :)) ? Or "Pot_of_Gold" ??? Or for Andrew Penny
"Gimme_Elite_Guards"? :)
Dominick
> ----------
> From: James Frediani[SMTP:ferpo@netdex.com]
> Reply To: James Frediani
> Sent: Tuesday, July 14, 1998 12:01 AM
> To: Bron Nelson; skrenta@pbm.com; Vansevenant Dominik
> Cc: g2-list@pbm.com
> Subject: Re: NP bug fixed
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bron Nelson <bron-oly2@bronze.corp.sgi.com>
> To: 'skrenta@pbm.com' <skrenta@pbm.com>; 'James Frediani'
> <ferpo@netdex.com>; Vansevenant Dominik
> <Dominik.Vansevenant@telenet.be>
> Cc: g2-list@pbm.com <g2-list@pbm.com>
> Date: Monday, July 13, 1998 2:12 PM
> Subject: RE: NP bug fixed
>
>
> >> I am not saying this bug should be fixed retroactively ! Just
> giving the
> >> poor sod his spells is enough
> >
> >I agree this sounds nice, but it is probably not an easy thing to
> >edit the game database by hand. And in any event, by my reading
> >of the rules, you have a 1/3 chance of dying instead of learning
> >the skills anyway.
>
>
> As for the last part, as the NPs were deducted, I'd have to say that
> the task was a success. They just want to get what they "played" for.
>
> As for the first part...you betcha! I was told by 1 GM that he had to
> basically run individual turns for only the units involved to correct
> similar errors in another PBM game...ie: isolating the units being
> corrected, then running turns for them only until the necessary
> adjustments
> were made. As there were limits to how much could be corrected each
> turn
> it took awhile.
>
> If any of you out there plan to try writing a program for a game some
> day,
> try to leave yourself a trapdoor whereby "God" can go in and "create"
> something out of nothing. Consider it good "PR".
>
> Jim Frediani
>
>
>
> >
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> >
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