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Date: Mon, 10 May 1982 22:11
Date: Mon, 10 May 1982 22:11
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Keep in mind that the add command does not place the initial two sectors as it is currently written. This means that you can easily succeed in adding a nation and then find that they can't log in because there are no adjacent pairs left. It seems clear that the allocation of sectors should be done at add time and that the selection could be done manually. Also, note that there is a bug in the VAX version of Empire which gets highly non-random random numbers. Thus, even after looking 1000 times for an adjacent pair, it's really only looked at about eight places. (In 4.1BSD, if you take the numbers from rand() mod 8, you end up with a sequence of period eight...) Pavel Curtis Cornell University
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From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!floyd!vax135!cornell!pavel Newsgroups: net.games.emp Title: Re: add command Article-I.D.: cornell.2945 Posted: Mon May 10 22:11:06 1982 Received: Tue May 11 03:13:00 1982 Subject: Re: add command Date: Mon, 10 May 1982 22:11:06 +0000 Message-ID: <bnews.cornell.2945>