Re: Improved Galaxy order syntax?

From: curt@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Curt Welch)

Date: Tue, 01 Dec 1992 22:46:16 +0000

In rec.games.pbm, hafting@Lise.Unit.NO (Helge Hafting) writes:
>Another way to (partly) solve the problem would be to allow a namechange only
>once for each time it is taken.

That would help, but I think it does more harm than good.

>The original numbers could also be used if
>naming a planet with a number were disallowed.

If any change is to be made, I would vote for this one.

And if you want to be nice, you could add options to control the
output format.  I could see three different output formats.  Either
use the planet name (the default), the number, or show both.

I think showing both would be the best of both worlds.  You get the
cute planet names (which I think adds a lot to the game) and you get
the numbers to keep you from getting confused and makes it easier to
use the same map for the entire game.  This of course would cause all
the output parsing tools to bomb, which is why you would need the
options to control it.

I'll even volunteer my time to write the code to do this if Russell thinks
it's an OK think to do.

Curt

References

Improved Galaxy order syntax?
schei@Siri.Unit.NO (Lars Schei)
Thu, 26 Nov 1992 19:29:54 +0000
Re: Improved Galaxy order syntax?
hafting@Lise.Unit.NO (Helge Hafting)
Tue, 01 Dec 1992 17:54:48 +0000