Re: CONQUEST & DESTINY

From: cisco@src.honeywell.com (Cisco Lopez-Fresquet)

Date: Sat, 04 Nov 1995 00:00:00 +0000

Oh yeah, something else that turned me off to C & D:

All the orders are simply numbers.  There is nothing intuitive in the
order structure to help you remember what order does what.  When an order
(and this is illustrative only) '1153' means x, and '1154' means
something completely different, writing orders is a chore.

I can see why having all-number orders could be nice for a snail-mail game,
since paying people to input turns is a majpor cost there, and 10-key is
FAST if you know what you are doing.  But for an email game I don't see the
reason for this.  Make the orders match the commands, and let the parser
figure them out.  Olympia (to use a sterling example) has aliases for many
common orders ('wood XX' and 'collect 77 XX' mean the same thing), and will
even correct for minor misspellings by attempting pattern matches, so if
you slightly mis-type an order ('resaerch' instead of 'research') it will still
execute correctly.

Writing orders for C&D looks too much like filling out missile firing codes
or something.

Just my $.02, of course.

- cisco

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References

Re: CONQUEST & DESTINY
xanceo@teleport.com (Bill Combs)
Wed, 01 Nov 1995 00:00:00 +0000

Referenced By

Re: CONQUEST & DESTINY
xanceo@teleport.com (Bill Combs)
Wed, 01 Nov 1995 00:00:00 +0000