From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!floyd!cmcl2!philabs!sdcsvax!phonlab!sdcatta!sdcattb!sdcarl!ucsfcgl!ucbvax!ARPAVAX:CAD:teklabs!terryl Newsgroups: net.games.emp Title: Watch out for date set wrong!!!!! Article-I.D.: teklabs.1197 Posted: Tue May 25 22:41:36 1982 Received: Sat May 29 01:18:36 1982 Reply-To: l The version of empire we are running here at Tek is one for an 11/70, and it will blindly believe whatever date the system says. Recently, after a system crash, the date got set wrong (it was set to three months ago). When I logged into empire, it said I had -17,000 BTUS (approximately)!!!! Well, needless to say I immediately got out of the game, set the date to be the correct date, and went back into empire. Well, this time it said I had -19,000 BTUS (approxiamtely, again)!!!! Hey, Peter, how about doing something intelligent like checking to see if the current date is less than the last login date into the game, and if so print a message to that effect and don't do any updating and quit????? I had to go into the empnat file (this is the file that keeps track of such things) with adb and hand patch it to give me a positive BTU count. Well, this worked but when I logged into the game next time, quite a few of my people died, and my research and technology levels had shrunk quite a bit!!!!!!! Boy, what a drag!!!!! Also, when the DEITY tried to run fix from the user-id that it was supposed to, we get the message 3 != 3, and then welcome back to empire. Anyone know anything about how the DEITY is supposed to do this to be able to fix things up??? I know this would be the preferred way instead of going into adb to fix things!!!! Also, in adb I was just guessing which fields in the file contained the BTU count, which was lucky that I guessed the right field!!!! Terry Laskodi ucbvax!teklabs!terryl or decvax!teklabs!terryl