Re: Olympia: declared attitudes

From: dao@d62iggy.mitre.org (David A. Ondzes)

Date: Mon, 13 Jul 1992 18:43:43 +0000

>	 I was planning to add a few more attitude levels to the current system
>	 when Steve Chapin proposed a more fine-grained control mechanism.
>	 This isn't quite what he proposed, but the idea is close.
>
>	 What do the players think?
>
>		 declare <unit> <flags> [combat-mode] [preference]
>
>		 s       stackable
>		 r       receive items via GIVE from other units
>		 g       let other units GET items from us
>		 i       receive men into this unit from other units
>		 o       allow men to be taken out of this unit by other units
>		 b       bar entry to location (for locations only)
>		 u       unfriendly; attack if odds favorable
>		 h       hostile; attack on sight, even with poor odds
>
>		 combat mode may be one of the following:
>
>			 kill
>			 capture
>			 booty

I like this idea.

>	 This system is uglier and cryptic, but offers more control.  The
>	 ugliest part would be in the location report, when you see the attitudes
>	 of other units towards you (but maybe this shouldn't be displayed?).

Like anything, it will take sometime to get use to. It sorta like
UNIX's permission codes rwx. I also think that the code should be displayed.

Picasso [890]

References

Olympia: declared attitudes
skrenta@rt.com (Rich Skrenta)
Mon, 13 Jul 1992 15:52:49 +0000

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Olympia: declared attitudes
skrenta@rt.com (Rich Skrenta)
Mon, 13 Jul 1992 15:52:49 +0000