reuter@famous.DEC (JIM REUTER DTN 522-2581) (07/29/85)
This situation occurs when someone exits from empire abnormally, such as in a system crash or a dropped line that doesn't hang up properly. This situation *can* be fixed by Diety, but not with the "visifix" program. The nation database keeps a field called "pid" which is the current empire process number, and if this is non-zero, attempting to start the game produces the "schizo" message. Only the regular "empfix" program knows about this field. Visifix does not, at least in the version I have (circa March 1985).