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1 total messages Started by Eric Anderson Sat, 21 Sep 1985 05:12
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Author: Eric Anderson
Date: Sat, 21 Sep 1985 05:12
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Everyone have their highways chackpointed?  Good.
Anyone have an overdue loan?  Bad news!

If one of your checkpointed sectors is confiscated, the checkpoint will
remain in effect (unlike attack which clears it).  This has two results:

1: You can reclaim the sector by moving everyone back out of it (since you
   know the checkpoint) and then back in.  Since it was left empty when you
   pulled everyone out, you now own it again.

2: The new owner of the sector can determine your checkpoint code with
   commands like 'census x,y ?che>500'  'census x,y ?che>250' and so on..
   (conducting a binary search.. only takes 10 tries at most)

Moral: Always use as many different checkpoint codes as you can.


Eric Anderson, UC San Diego {elsewhere}!ihnp4!ucbvax!sdcsvax!sdcc3!ewa

AKA:  Living Dead   British Soccer Fans   Silicon Valley   Greyhawk
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