Re: Olympian work granularity

From: Bill.Viggers@comp.vuw.ac.nz (Bill Viggers)

Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1992 04:26:09 +0000

In article <1992Jul29.131029.29776@walter.cray.com>, rsocia@alberti.cray.com (Rick Socia) writes:
|>> want to, say, work until 543 arives, just
|>>          set idle "work"
|>>          wait char 543
|>> If he arrives on the 5th day, you get 5 days worth of gold, and continue with
|>> your orders.
|>
|>
|> I wish this were true.  I did the same thing with study, and did not get the wait
|> to execute until a weeks worth of study (the default) completed.  However if
|> the Olympia engine can be modified to work as you suggest, I would whole-heartedly
|> agree to remove the granularity.
|>

Actually this is how I understand it to work also.  The trouble is there
	are only certain wait functions implemented.  If I want to stack with
	someone as soon as possible, but at the start of the month they are not
	friendly, I do :

set idle "stack 1234; work 1"
	wait stack 1234

If there was a wait attitude option on the other hand I could do

set idle "work"
	wait attitude 1234 friendly
	stack 1234

This does require the ability to do a work 1 (unless any Olympian turn
	hackers want to come up with another way of doing it....)

But I don't really think that the first is that much worse than the
	2nd, it just means I have lots of 1 day works (which do mess up the
	turn report :-()

Bill

References

Olympian work granularity
rsocia@alberti.cray.com (Rick Socia)
Tue, 28 Jul 1992 18:25:19 +0000
Re: Olympian work granularity
Joshua Kronengold <JOKHC@CUNYVM.BITNET>
Wed, 29 Jul 1992 04:42:53 +0000
Re: Olympian work granularity
rsocia@alberti.cray.com (Rick Socia)
Wed, 29 Jul 1992 13:10:29 +0000