May 9th, 2003, 08:23 AM
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Re: SE4 Editor
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Originally posted by Ruatha:
Yes, but it did happen that the dreaded "Tim Continuum" stroke without cause, not often but it did happen.
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I suspect that is why they fixes were disguised as random events, and the host program didn't automatically boot the offending player out of the game.
However, assuming the false positive has the same chance per player (or the same chance per ship/planet processed) then it still makes for a fair game - you just have a new source of random events.
Besides, false positives are just programming bugs or transmission errors, and theoretically could be worked out in a different implementation.
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Of course, by the time I finish this post, it will already be obsolete. C'est la vie.
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