Re: Xconq 7.2.2 Released

[rmk <rmk@mindless.com>]

Well, if just downloaded Xconq 7.2.2 and since I hadn't played Xconq for nearly a year I decided to give it a shot.  I still like the game.  It looks good.  The play options are reasonable, though  a trifle confusing ( as always) and most of the scenarios are reasonable.

Some time ago I coded a modification to Gettysburg it got lost in the migration to my new machine.  Looking at the options I decided to five Post Modern a shot.  It looked good.  The unit options seemed to be reasonable and looked to make for an interesting game.  Now here's the rub.  In a computer game the AI builds only Engineers.  Nothing else.  I played the game three times.  Every time, only Engineers.  I changed the difficulty giving the AI and advantage, only Engineers.  I Increased the number of opponents, only engineers.  I changed the map size, only Engineers.

I looked for a fix at the web site and didn't find any. Am I to assume that the AI is operating in failure mode in this scenario?


...rmk

At 23:29 -0700 06/30/98, Stan Shebs wrote:
>OK, I've just put out 7.2.2, in the usual place.  For Unix, the only
>changes are panner fix, silhouette preference over color image, and
>FreeBSD config; for Mac there are a bunch of crash fixes.  There are
>no kernel or library game changes.  This is it for 7.2 patch levels!
>
>(The Mac binary archive will show up tomorrow, didn't get a chance
>to drag it in from home this morning...)
>
>							Stan 
Hamlet is the tragedy of tackling a
family problem too soon after college.
- Tom Masson (1866-1934)