Re: Odyssey Questions

From: rcb@kaiwan009.kaiwan.com (Robert Christopher Butchko)

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

In article <1995Sep6.132249.9799@hayes>,
Damage Control <jbrowning@hayes.com> wrote:
>In article <17410FD35S86.DLUKE@msu.edu>, DLUKE@msu.edu (Doug Luke) writes:
>> 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?
>
>INVESTIGATING a marker will give you a small blurb as to what it is. VIEW will
>only give you what's on your sighting report now.

Erk...
This is exactly opposite to what, after much re-reading, I had concluded.
Since investigate takes an action, and embark takes an action, I figured
that view would give you the information you needed to decide whether to
go on the <whatever>. I decided this, I think, because the rules say you
can VIEW markers.  This costs an MP.  Why waste an MP viewing a marker
if you get nothing more than sighting information?
Why should it take an action to decide to use an action?  Seems somewhat
stiff.  I don't think (game mode on) it's that hard to figure out what's
being offered at a marker- certainly not as hard as doing something.
-cb

References

Odyssey Questions
DLUKE@msu.edu (Doug Luke)
Tue, 05 Sep 1995 00:00:00 +0000
Re: Odyssey Questions
jbrowning@hayes.com (Damage Control)
Wed, 06 Sep 1995 00:00:00 +0000

Referenced By

Odyssey Questions
DLUKE@msu.edu (Doug Luke)
Tue, 05 Sep 1995 00:00:00 +0000
Re: Odyssey Questions
jbrowning@hayes.com (Damage Control)
Wed, 06 Sep 1995 00:00:00 +0000