Re: Question for Strategic Fantasy PBEMers

From: khearn@pyramid.com (Keith Hearn)

Date: Wed, 16 Apr 1997 00:00:00 +0000

In article <philen-ya02408000R1504972338530001@news.itd.umich.edu>,
Phillip Lenhardt <philen@umich.edu> wrote:
>I have about 20% of the code done for a strategic fantasy PBEM ala Olympus
>or Atlantis. It is far from done, but some basic functions are working. My
>question is this:
>
>Is it important to you to have exact coordinates for each of your units?
>That is, on your turn sheets, you always have info like <2,37>, indicating
>where in the world you are. What would happen if I didn't implement exact
>coordinates? As I have it now, the only way you can be _sure_ of where you
>are is to cast a "greater location" spell. In addition, I'm working on a
>nasty little bit in the movement routine that will occassionally move you
>in the wrong direction (or not at all) with a small frequency of occurance
>depending upon your Scouting skill.

It might make things somewhat interesting. You should make it work in
  such a manner that you won't get mixed up in familiar territory.
  I'm not sure how to define "familiar" though. I'd say in Oly, that
  anywhere your faction has garrisoned would definitely be familiar.
  Maybe even any time you're moving into a previously visited
  province. That means you'd have to track that for each faction, but
  Oly manages to do that, and I like that stat.

Keith Hearn
  khearn@pyramid.com

References

Question for Strategic Fantasy PBEMers
philen@umich.edu (Phillip Lenhardt)
Tue, 15 Apr 1997 00:00:00 +0000