| Stars! Calculator: What is "Bugged PP"? |
Mon, 08 May 2006 20:10  |
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I've been wondering this for several years now. What does it mean "bugged PP" in the Stars! Calculator? Under Mineral Packets Calculator. There's: PP, IT (Both Obvious), and "bugged PP". What's the difference between bugged PP and PP?
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| Re: Stars! Calculator: What is "Bugged PP"? |
Tue, 09 May 2006 02:59  |
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huh... what version's that? I was almost worried it was a modern feature (or as the name suggests, bug) I wasn't aware of.
And that figures from what it does to the PP damage scale, same decay, less pop kill.
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| Re: Stars! Calculator: What is "Bugged PP"? |
Mon, 15 May 2006 17:14 |
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| Micha | 
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From rgcs:| jannda...@worldnet.att.net says... |
>>> PP packets do 1/3 damage, which basicly makes the race unplayable,
>>> because their only advantage is they can fling packets like nobody
>>> else.
>>but this was part of the original design, it is in the manual, eetc, yes it
>>make the race difficult to play, but it is not a bug...just bad design?
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| On 19 Jul 1997 21:18:09 GMT, hlwsm...@concentric.net (Harvey Smith) wrote: |
Nope, when they moved the code (from CA?) to PP to make packets
terraforming, they BY ACCIDENT also included the 1/3 packet damage.
Ergo, a bug. I know it's in the manual. That makes it one of the best
documented bugs in existance.
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| "David Snipes" writes: |
Nope, bug. Specifically, when the PP's got the ability to terraform
with packets from the old CA's, they also picked up the 1/3 damage,
because the Jeffs forgot to take it out when they moved the code for
terraforming, not because they meant for it to be there.
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Interesting ...
mch
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| Re: Stars! Calculator: What is "Bugged PP"? |
Mon, 15 May 2006 17:26 |
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Excellent corroboration Micha!
I think it suggests they did 1/3 damage.
[Updated on: Mon, 15 May 2006 17:27]
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| Re: Stars! Calculator: What is "Bugged PP"? |
Tue, 16 May 2006 09:37 |
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Did PP exist before the terraforming was given to it?
(Stars! history lesson, how fascinating.)
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