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| Two years ago, I saw someone lose their homeworld because of a much worse issue with the random friendly codes on ships.
http://planets.nu/#/sector/94273
(This issue has since been fixed, but it's a fun story.)
The colony player in slot 2 was sending some virgos to attack the federation player in slot 3. On turn 19, one of these virgos met a defending nebula cruiser whose primary enemy was set, and did not destroy it. The federation player assumed he had caught a virgo without fuel, and towed the prize back to his homeworld for surrender. The homeworld was destroyed, and we had a long discussion in the forum about various unlikely explanations for how the out-of-fuel virgo suddenly became dangerous.
After the game, I took a closer look and found that the virgo and nebula had matching "random" friendly codes trw. Seemed like a rare coincidence, until I viewed the full list of friendly codes for both races. Almost all starting random friendly codes for one race had also been reused for the other race. |
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