Re: Okympia: New Subskills

From: rwallace@unix1.tcd.ie (russell wallace)

Date: Thu, 09 Jul 1992 22:52:20 +0000

Fine, if you think lots of different skills for different situations are
good, then implement a large number of different skills. But why not
make them a flat set of skills, rather than the current more or less
incomprehensible (IMHO) hierarchical system?

No, Rich, I haven't used much of anything more than WORK, RECRUIT and
ATTACK. On the other hand I don't use IMPRESS anymore because I find
that at best you end up with the same results as from RECRUIT, but by a
more roundabout and inefficient way (using PERSUADE on the IMPRESSed
units costs gold, TERRORIZE can only reach fairly low levels of loyalty
according to the manual, and both involve wasting a lot of time for
other units which could have been WORKing or whatever in the meantime,
to say nothing of the fact that the results of PERSUADE and TERRORIZE
are largely undocumented so by using them I would be blundering around
at random); so what's the point of using IMPRESS? Now I suppose you
could argue that since I don't use the economic orders people are
entitled to ignore my suggestions about them, in which case OK go ahead.

--
"To summarize the summary of the summary: people are a problem"
Russell Wallace, Trinity College, Dublin
rwallace@unix1.tcd.ie

References

Okympia: New Subskills
Dave Horowitz <DSH109@psuvm.psu.edu>
Wed, 08 Jul 1992 13:08:43 +0000
Re: Okympia: New Subskills
skrenta@cbnewsg.att.com (Rich Skrenta)
Wed, 08 Jul 1992 19:40:41 +0000
Re: Okympia: New Subskills
rwallace@unix1.tcd.ie (russell wallace)
Thu, 09 Jul 1992 05:54:20 +0000
Re: Okympia: New Subskills
Dave Horowitz <DSH109@psuvm.psu.edu>
Thu, 09 Jul 1992 11:34:12 +0000

Referenced By

Okympia: New Subskills
Dave Horowitz <DSH109@psuvm.psu.edu>
Wed, 08 Jul 1992 13:08:43 +0000
Re: Okympia: New Subskills
skrenta@cbnewsg.att.com (Rich Skrenta)
Wed, 08 Jul 1992 19:40:41 +0000
Re: Okympia: New Subskills
rwallace@unix1.tcd.ie (russell wallace)
Thu, 09 Jul 1992 05:54:20 +0000
Re: Okympia: New Subskills
Dave Horowitz <DSH109@psuvm.psu.edu>
Thu, 09 Jul 1992 11:34:12 +0000