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Article #314Weather Control
From: Herb Kanner
Date: Sat, 03 Nov 1984 19:27
Date: Sat, 03 Nov 1984 19:27
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Since reporting bugs in Empire has become popular, I am hereby reporting a bug that was discovered by one of our players a couple of months ago, and, under our ground rules, made known to the other players after a brief period of exclusive use by the discoverer. The bug is that a weather forecast, even for a small portion of a country, is an implied forecast for the whole country, and the forecast weather becomes the actual weather until the player logs out of empire. So, your weather station keeps getting hit by tornados and hurricanes, and the rest of your country always lives under sunny skies. The damage to the weather station is irrelevant; you don't care whether the forecasts are accurate, you just want to try various numbers of hours in the future until you hit a good day. Herb Kanner Tymenet, Inc.
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site tymix.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!linus!decvax!decwrl!sun!qubix!ios!oliveb!tymix!kanner From: kanner@tymix.UUCP (Herb Kanner) Newsgroups: net.games.emp Subject: Weather Control Message-ID: <313@tymix.UUCP> Date: Sat, 3-Nov-84 14:27:41 EST Article-I.D.: tymix.313 Posted: Sat Nov 3 14:27:41 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 6-Nov-84 02:41:50 EST Distribution: net Organization: Tymnet Inc., Cupertino CA Lines: 14