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From: avrom@Csli.Stanford.EDU (Avrom Faderman)
Subject: Re: Help in Suspended
Message-ID: <1993Dec5.235840.7063@Csli.Stanford.EDU>
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Date: Sun, 5 Dec 1993 23:58:40 GMT
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In article <DJOHNSON.93Dec5005103@seuss.ucsd.edu> djohnson@seuss.ucsd.edu (Darin Johnson) writes:
>A couple of questions.
>
>First, the score shows up as something like:  score: 18/236.
>The 236 means the turn number, but what does the 18 mean?  It
>doesn't seem to correlate with actions like a score would.

If I remember correcly, the first # means casualties.  You want to
keep this down.

>Second, (spoilers)

>How do I control the weather?  I can turn a dial up to 100, but
>that only barely raises the actual pressure.  I'm assuming I have
>to get all the weather, traffic, food under control before I can
>rebalance the FCs (because only replacing the bad cables causes
>the machine to complain it's out of balance when I try to reset,
>unless I'm missing something).

It's tough.  For one thing, I think there's a delayed reaction.  You
don't need to have the computers in balance to reset them--I don't
remember exactly what you have to do.  Manually controlling them
simply keeps things on the surface OK in the interim, which will help
your score and keep the Bosses from replacing you too quickly.
-- 
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