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by BooDog
Mon Feb 14, 2022 12:55 pm
Forum: Testing and Bug reports
Topic: Sudden jump in number of kills
Replies: 11
Views: 5833

Re: Sudden jump in number of kills

Actually feels a bit like cheating. The Constrictor isn't hard enough to be worth 256 kills!

I just assumed it was a bug! Oops :roll:
by BooDog
Mon Feb 14, 2022 12:42 pm
Forum: Testing and Bug reports
Topic: Sudden jump in number of kills
Replies: 11
Views: 5833

Re: Sudden jump in number of kills

Oh right - that wasn't clear to me at all! I noticed the jump and my programming brain just screamed "corruption!!!".

This whole post can quite happily be clobbered, its just noise.

Thanks!
by BooDog
Mon Feb 14, 2022 12:25 pm
Forum: Testing and Bug reports
Topic: Sudden jump in number of kills
Replies: 11
Views: 5833

Sudden jump in number of kills

Has anyone seen the number of kills (and rating) suddenly change without apparently doing anything to earn them? I started with a fresh "Jameson" a few weeks ago, been slowly getting the hang of the game, building money and kills, and also playing with the balance of OXPs/OXZs to get the &...
by BooDog
Mon Feb 14, 2022 11:57 am
Forum: Discussion
Topic: Introduce Yourself.
Replies: 1364
Views: 729621

Re: Introduce Yourself.

Cody wrote: Sun Feb 13, 2022 9:52 am
My guess is Brizzie! They're all in Brizzie!
Right you are! The Moreton Bay Penal Colony it is.
by BooDog
Sun Feb 06, 2022 11:20 am
Forum: Discussion
Topic: Introduce Yourself.
Replies: 1364
Views: 729621

Re: Introduce Yourself.

Thanks Cholmondely, I'll follow those links and see if I can at least get a current Ubuntu build going, bearing in mind that I'll need to repeat the process in a couple months when 22.04 LTS lands.
by BooDog
Sun Feb 06, 2022 10:58 am
Forum: Discussion
Topic: Introduce Yourself.
Replies: 1364
Views: 729621

Re: Introduce Yourself.

Thanks all for the welcome. I started off just fiddling with OXPs and OXZs, e.g. tweaking Povray Planets to coexist better with FPO Lave and FPO Zaonce (just plist edits). I've now pulled the source using Git and waded though installing the dependencies to get things building on Ubuntu 20.04 / gcc 9...
by BooDog
Sat Feb 05, 2022 10:25 am
Forum: Discussion
Topic: Introduce Yourself.
Replies: 1364
Views: 729621

Re: Introduce Yourself.

G'day Commanders. Commander BooDog here; returning to the fold after decades. Bought and played through to Elite on my Apple //e in the mid '80s when I should have been studying for my Computer Science degree. Thoroughly enjoyed The Dark Wheel and was amused it was written by Robert Holdstock, being...