Fed2 Star - the newsletter for the space trading game Federation 2

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by ibgames

EARTHDATE: May 14, 2017

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FINAL FIGHTING CODE PROGRESSING

by Hazed

Alan continues to work on the final piece of programming needed for ship fighting. This is the code that implements death if your ship gets so damaged that the hull strength reaches zero.

This is complicated stuff, with a lot of different elements to it. Everything has to be tested thoroughly; a bug that meant a player did not die when she was supposed to wouldn’t be too catastrophic, but if it was the other way around and she was killed prematurely, well, you wouldn’t be happy if it happened to you!

As regular readers will know, Alan hates predicting when code will be finished, but when I nagged him he thought it might be ready in about two weeks. If that turns out to be the case, then when the Star returns from its break, we’ll tell you exactly when the death code will be added to the game, so you have some advance warning.

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