kyrimis@tilt.FUN (Kriton Kyrimis) (11/10/85)
We have encountered the following bug in phantasia 3.3.1+ (the one with the modifications by Chris Robertson): If a player dies while he/she is the king, he/she is not completely killed. The number of players in the game is not reduced (I believe this hap- pens even if the dead character wasn't the king) and, more impor- tantly, if someone else tries to become the king, they are in- formed that they cannot do so, because the king is still playing! New players are informed in the title page that the current ruler is <null>, whose level is that of whoever died last. Does anyone have a fix for this annoying bug? (Or is it a feature?) -- Kriton (princeton!tilt!kyrimis) ------ "...E equals M C cubed..." "Squared!" "What was that?" "Squared! E equals M C squared!" "Not in the extra-temporal physics of the time vortex!!!" ------
oaa@houxl.UUCP (O.ALEXANDER) (11/12/85)
A tempory fix for this bug, where characters are not removed automatically and if the dead character was a king, no one else can be afterwards, is to manually remove any characters that should be. Issue the command: phantasia -x -S answer "<null>" to the name prompt, then type "D" to delete the character. This will only work if you are the super-user as defined by the program when it was made. Owen Alexander houxl!oaa
kyrimis@tilt.FUN (Kriton Kyrimis) (11/13/85)
In article <856@houxl.UUCP> oaa@houxl.UUCP (O.ALEXANDER) writes: >A tempory fix for this bug, where characters are not removed automatically and >if the dead character was a king, no one else can be afterwards, is to manually >remove any characters that should be. Issue the command: > phantasia -x -S >answer "<null>" to the name prompt, then type "D" to delete the character. >This will only work if you are the super-user as defined by the program when >it was made. Unfortunately this doesn't work if someone else dies before you get a chance to delete <null>. If that happens, <null> gets the characteristics of the last player that dies, but phantasia still thinks that the king is someone named <null>, whose characteris- tics are those of the now defunct king. My rather drastic solution was to re-create the characs file, and populate it by hand, using the -x -S options. -- Kriton (princeton!tilt!kyrimis) ------ "What are you gonna do now?" "Keep it confused, feed it with useless information - I wonder if I have a television set handy?" ------