davidk@dartvax.UUCP (David C. Kovar) (08/24/84)
We finally got Empire up and running, many thanks to PSL and Sean Byrne.
We're all happily running around, coaxing our populations along, trying
to grow some food, and dodging hurricanes. (Man, did we get some bad
weather early on!!!) So now for a few questions:
1) Several people have been logged off (killed off) of Empire shortly
after midnight and then told that they were schitzophrenic when
they tried to get back into it. According to the country roster,
it thought that they were still logged on. Other people, trying
to do some post-midnight checking, we're also told that they were
loony. What gives? No jobs were running Empire, Empire does not
have a daemon, so who was doing what? The situation eventually
clears itself up, but it is puzzling.
2) Does anyhow have any good instructions on how to "fix" the world
with the Diety? I'm afraid of trashing our world, so I've refrained
from playing with it much.
3) Given the same sized world, will the same number of meteors hit
every time you start a new game? I tried creating our world three
times and a lot, if not all, of the start up specs looked the same.
Anh ideas?
4) If there are any modified routines, fixes, tools, or anything else
for Empire out there, we'd be happy to get copies to play with.
In particular, I would like to find a newer version of VE, the
Visual Empire tool. My copy drops the leading digit on some civilian
populations, ignores radar, and a few other things. Aside from
that, it's really nice.
Thanks much, in advance of course.
P.S. Please do not ask me to re-distribute Empire for you. I'm
not sure that it is ok for me to do so, and my system
administrator might object to me tying up the drive for
hours on end running off Empire copies.
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David C. Kovar
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