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[Trorbes]

It happened in both Alpha 1 and Alpha 4, but I'm not sure what sets it off.  I know it requires the hostage to die without ordering someone to K - kill them, but it seems to be somewhat unpredictable:  once one committed suicide which crashed the game several times until I killed them myself, and a few have crashed it when dying by dehydration, but I haven't recreated it yet.  I'll post the save next time I can get it to (not) work.

Neat addition, though, and fun but much more difficult to create sleepers.

[Jonathan S. Fox]

I'm not really working on it, but what would help in that situation would be if you could post a save game where hitting next turn always crashes the game. That would do wonders for helping me to track it down. Like I said, I'm not really active at the moment though, focused on school, and currently staffing for an online game, so not a lot of free time.

[Earthquake Damage]

About 2/3 of the way through the first page of this thread, so if better ideas have appeared, ignore this, but...

Teaching:  The maximum skill level a student can reach might be restricted to the teacher's Teaching skill (minimum of 1, since otherwise how could someone with no skill accrue any?), restricted to a maximum of, say, half or two thirds the teacher's skill level in whatever you're teaching.  The Teaching skill can also directly affect the rate at which students learn, such that an unskilled Teacher takes a month to teach skill level 1 while a level 10 Teacher can do the same in a week or less.

[Jonathan S. Fox]

I think I was thinking that teaching would have caps enforced by both teaching skill and the skill being taught as to how far you can train someone. You could train up to the teaching level, or one less than the skill level, whichever was lower. But I like your idea better, of having teaching work the pace of learning, and have the skill be the only cap.

[Little]

Please delete. Accidential double post. My post is on the next page.

[ February 01, 2008: Message edited by: Little ]

[Little]

Mine shuts down at the end of random days and I can't get by the day unless my leader dies and I can't start a new game....

[ February 01, 2008: Message edited by: Little ]

[Jonathan S. Fox]

You can delete the save file to start a new game. Or email the save file to me at floppysocks@hevanet.com, if you're using the latest alpha build on windows, and I can try to find out what's going on with it.

Both is probably ideal. Give it to me so I can figure out why it's happening, and take it out of the lcs directory so you can start a new game.  

[ February 01, 2008: Message edited by: Jonathan S. Fox ]

[Jonathan S. Fox]

Um... having reviewed the source code, I think I accidentally deleted the line where you get experience in weapon skill when you attack.   Which should explain why people are experiencing a lack of skill growth. Easily fixed for next release.

[Jonathan S. Fox]

Found the crash bug, or at least one of them. I think it was related to a recruiter dying while the recruit was out doing something -- it would crash when the recruit came back and it tried to award juice to the non-existant recruiter. There was a check in place to prevent that from happening, but it wasn't being applied correctly. Should be fixed for the next release.

[Toaster]

I just saw a Writhing Mass at the CEO residence.  Is that supposed to be there?

[Jonathan S. Fox]

>_>; I don't think so.

[a1s]

I keep forgetting this one, and it has been around since forever:
abortion laws are always green when the game begins. there is no reason for them to be and 9 times out of 10 they are downgraded in the first legislation.

[Skeeblix]

I think he programmed things to mimic (for the most part) the political climate of today. Old LCS had more of a late 80s early 90s political feeling to it, considering the assault weapons ban was still in effect then, and in-game gun control started more heavily regulated.

[Gruegirl]

in 3.15alpha When interrogating people, they commit suicide. Then the game crashes.

It looks like because they kill themselves and they have no names that it causes the name field to be undefined as to who killed them.

[a1s]

victim suicides have already been reported and have been solved in alpha6 (not yet released).

um... Skeeblix? what does that have to do with anything? Not only were gun issues added by Fox in the 2000s, they are also randomly set at the beginning of the game.