Re: Galaxy Enhancements (formerly world names)

From: hafting@Lise.Unit.NO (Helge Hafting)

Date: Thu, 03 Dec 1992 15:13:58 +0000

In article <BynKzG.AGC@news.cso.uiuc.edu>, amead@s.psych.uiuc.edu (Alan Mead) writes:
 > amead@s.psych.uiuc.edu (Alan Mead) writes:
 >
 > >You know what *I* would like to see?
 >
 > Whoops, missed my big Christmas wish...  I'd like the copmmand parser
 > guess what I meant when I make a typo (perhaps using the Soundex method
 > to make a list and then picking randomly if there are more than one
 > likely token).
 >
 > For example, if I type "P 123 trasnport4" and I have ship types
 > [Transport1 Transport2 Transport3 & Transport4], I'd really much rather
 > that ONE of them be built than nothing (or whatever was built last
 > turn).
 >
[...]
 > -alan mead

I like it better the way it is done in the alpha galaxy.  The game immediately
sends an error report when I send in my orders. If I produce
non-existing ship types or sends ships to non-existing planets, I just get
an error mail and may send in a new set of orders before the update.
--
 |  |      ^         |  |      /   ^   o
 |__| _   /|  _  _   |__| _   /|  /|   |    _   _
 |  |/_) / | / \/_)  |  |/ | /-+-/-+- /| /|/ | / \
 |  |\__/  |/\_/\_   |  |\_|/  |   \_/ |/ |  |/\_/
            __/                /              __/

References

Re: Galaxy Enhancements (formerly world names)
amead@s.psych.uiuc.edu (Alan Mead)
Wed, 02 Dec 1992 22:26:02 +0000
Galaxy Enhancements (formerly world names)
amead@s.psych.uiuc.edu (Alan Mead)
Wed, 02 Dec 1992 03:58:36 +0000