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Yeah, the Final Fantasy reviews took a long time too. It does take a long time just to play the games, let alone write a lengthy and (purposely) OTT critique. Looking forward to the SI one now! I'd probably have to agree with the combat feeling a bit meaningless. Although it might feel like that in ...

Ah, nm. Managed to compile the latest SVN snapshot and found an insightful mailing list thread on the problem.

@Silver Venom, Dominus Hi guys, I do have some reasonably long (which doesn't necessarily mean good ;) programming experience and would love to help snuff this bug out if I can; hence my questions. But, probably just like you guys, I have a serious shortage of time :D Is there any kind of automated ...

I'm aware of that, but it's obviously modelled closely on the BEHAVIOUR of Ultima 7. So if an "inevitable" bug crops up, it's possible that the U7 team made the same error.

Just trying to be helpful, hence the question about reproducing the bug.

Oh cool. So a room with like 50 NPCs with schedules for serving food on tables, baking etc might make it easy to reproduce and test this?

Did the original U7 suffer from this, or is this a bug introduced in Exult recently?

Agreed, very interesting.

Earlier, I was referring to the U7/SI team. I'm not sure if they were mostly the same team responsible for the other games and UW etc, but I'm sure there was some overlap?

1) Does he play any games these days? 2) Which of the Ultimas was his favourite? Does he still play them with e.g. Exult/Dosbox/Pentagram? (maybe you have plans to touch on these anyway) 3) How does he feel about what happened to Origin after EA? Was it inevitable or... 4) Ultima 9? It looked beauti...