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Minor security bug

Posted: Thu Jan 24, 2008 2:31 am
by gwheelock
The program is showing the remaining MOVEMENT on FOREIGN corp.

It is then possible to track the corp until the other power's movement phase
(in the case shown; it is possible to know that the Prussian player removed
the other corp in the Berlin stack during his reinforcement because the
remaining corp shows the >1< remaining movement)



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RE: Minor security bug

Posted: Thu Jan 24, 2008 10:26 am
by DCWhitworth
Is this a bug ? In the board game you'd be able to watch your opponent move his forces so this is only a representation of that isn't it ?

RE: Minor security bug

Posted: Thu Jan 24, 2008 2:23 pm
by gwheelock
Its a bug if the info persists past the land movement phase because it allows
others to identify a specific corp after they should have faded back to anonymity
(as in Berlin after the Prussian reinforcement & removal of the OTHER corp that
was there - I can tell that the remaining corp is the one Nappy booted out of
Area148 [ie the Pr II corp] - this means that I now know the max size of that unit.)
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In the board game you can only track the identity of a corp until it crosses paths
with another & then you don't know which went where (if the phasing player played
right - many were somewhat ... sloppy ... in trying to maintain operational security.
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Note - I don't consider this a MAJOR bug by any stretch; but anything that identifies
a unit to an opponent outside of combat is a bug.