Re: Olympia: good additions and bad additions

From: srt@aero.org (Scott "TCB" Turner)

Date: Sat, 11 Jul 1992 21:00:22 +0000

(Greg Lindahl) writes:
>set 0 idle "attack 501;attack 502;...;attack 801;work 1"

To me this seemed like an abuse, so I avoided doing it, and I lobbied
Rich to make failed attacks (or any failed command) cost 1 day.

At any rate, this isn't a very useful command for controlling
territory anyway.

The main problem is that (I believe) someone can still arrive, shop,
and leave before you get a chance to attack him, depending on the
ordering of the zero-time commands at the beginning of your turn.  For
this reason, it's useless for trying to control, say, Summerbridge.
What's more, if you do catch one guy, everybody else that you're
trying to stop can just waltz through while you're battling.  I tried
to come up with a scheme to multiplex attacks using SIGNAL, but it
doesn't seem to be possible.

The other obvious problem is that you can only attack units you know
about.  What most people really want is "stop any units from
travelling through here."

Minor problems are that you have to commit to (possibly) attacking all
those units (of course, this is also a potential problem with "declare
hostile"), and that you can only do this in conjunction with some
activity that you can do a day at a time.  You can't train wild horses
while doing this, for instance.

-- Scott T.

References

Olympia: good additions and bad additions
gl8f@fermi.clas.Virginia.EDU (Greg Lindahl)
Sat, 11 Jul 1992 17:33:01 +0000

Referenced By

Olympia: good additions and bad additions
gl8f@fermi.clas.Virginia.EDU (Greg Lindahl)
Sat, 11 Jul 1992 17:33:01 +0000