Bug in attacking asteroid

[wogan]

Ah, yes, the nonexistent invisible tree. I've had that one happen to me too. I guess the code for killing trees needs a look at

[Alex]

Invisible/indestructible trees are due to the fact that they're invincible when growing their root. The problem was that we needed a root that joined to the core for the seedlings to travel down to the core, so the tree couldn't realistically be destroyed until the root had reached the core. Sadly the root navigator code would sometimes fail and the tree would never start growing. All fixed now

[Rudolf]

it should be a relatively simple download-and-overwrite operation.

In all my years as a professional game developer I have learned a few things. One nugget amongst them is that these things are never simple and almost never without serious risks. I myself have had my harddisk wiped (yes deleted from the root level) by one of these that was coded just a bit too nonchalantly. ;-)
(Not that Alex would ever code anything like that I hasten to add) ;-)

[Alex]

Depends how much you piss me off man!!! We all have our limits!!!!!

[Rudolf]

Depends how much you piss me off man!!! We all have our limits!!!!!

Just do the work man, we need a skate boarding turtle in the game and that is final.

[Alex]

I could set the building on fire...

[Rudolf]

yeah... yeah... Before you do that I need you ... eh.. go ahead and come in over the whole weekend.... mkay?

[ab aeterno]

so you guys have some issues...

[crazeh.monkeh]

Oh gosh... I love you guys. Lol.

[wogan]

One nugget amongst them is that these things are never simple and almost never without serious risks.

Obviously there are risks, that goes without saying. But the code for that would be simple, just as rm -r would free up all possible space on your harddrive.

[IChrisI]

I've rewritten this code now - all these awful problems ought to disappear.

Ooh, root systems look prettier now. I like how they joined up before, but the smoothness looks nice.