Re: Odyssey Questions

From: sjoerd@cs.vu.nl (Sjoerd Schreuder)

Date: Wed, 06 Sep 1995 00:00:00 +0000

DLUKE@msu.edu (Doug Luke) writes:

>I got my setup for HQ-2, and am having fun wading through it. There sure
>is a lot of information, and the game hasn't even started yet! Here are
>some quick beginners questions for all of you Odyssey experts:
>
>1) What does BD stand for in the province reports? I can't seem to find
>   this anywhere in the docs.

Battle Distance: The distance two armies start apart when they are
engaged in a Battle. Important to know how many turns your missile
troops have to kill the other troops.

>2) I'm a little confused about markers and features. When investigating
>   them, should I investigate the marker (m????) or feature (q????)?
>   Also, does INVESTIGATE give me more information about markers than
>   simply VIEWing them?

To be able to INVESTIGATE a marker, it has to be in sight
(read: you have to be in the same province). BUT investigate gives exactly
the same information as VIEW, so don't use INVESTIGATE on markers.
(on a simular base: don't investigate titles/statuses/religions
 which one of your characters has: issue DETAILS instead)

>3) Does anyone have some turn and result forms from the playtest that
>   they would be willing to share? There are a number of orders that
>   are not used in the example turns and results available from Gamers
>   Den. This would also help me figure out how the turn sequencing works.

Turn sequencing:
- everybody gets the first order (in random order)
- everybody gets the second order (in a different random order)
- everybody gets the third ....
up to
- everybody gets the last (500) order.

>4) Finally, how do people keep track of all the information? Just keeping
>   up with the map will be tough enough, not to mention the items, quests,
>   dens, titles, etc.! I'm thinking of using a mapping utility (STGMap or
>   possibly even Aide de Camp) to keep track of my area. Anyone interested
>   in trading map information?

Just reserve enough disk space to hold everything, make it easily
available, and use 'grep'.

I've made a directory INFO with files: titles, status, items, locations,
titles.long, status.long, locations.long. In the simple files,
I have a one-line description, and in the long files I can find
all DETAILS I've on that topic. This works for me (but takes lots of times)
I've also made a SPELL.bo, SPELL.md, etc and PRIEST.w1 (with all spells),
WARLOCK etc files, just to be able to see which melee defense spells
are available to a warlock.

>BTW, I've set up in the SW, around the Wastes/Fringe. If anyone is interested
>in alliances, information, cooperation, etc., let me know!
>
>--Doug Luke--

Sjoerd Schreuder
(Also in game HQ-2)

References

Odyssey Questions
DLUKE@msu.edu (Doug Luke)
Tue, 05 Sep 1995 00:00:00 +0000