Re: Olympia: declared attitudes

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

Date: Mon, 13 Jul 1992 20:57:17 +0000

> Osswid's stealthy character Feasel the
>Assasin is seen by you, but you don't have enough observation to see
>his faction.  You shouldn't auto-attack him, since you don't know that
>he's one of my units.

The potential problem I see here is this:

My high observation stack sees Feasel, notes he belongs to Osswid.

Later on, Feasel wanders into a province with my Assassin Killing
Death Stack (tm), who has "hostile" set towards Feasel, but not enough
Observation to know Feasel's faction.

What happens?

On the one hand, you could argue that what with instantaneous
communication amongst a faction and so on, Assassin Killing Death
Stack should realize that Feasel is an Osswid unit, and kill him.

On the other hand, you could argue that as implementor of Olympia,
there's no way you're ever going to be convinced to implement this.

And on the third hand, you could argue that Feasel *might* have
changed factions since you first spotted him, and might not be an
Osswid stack anymore, so you shouldn't attack him.

The end result, I suspect, will be that despite the better attitude
stuff, you'll still have to manually set your attitude towards every
stack that you know and care about, to avoid this situation.

-- Scott T.

References

Re: Olympia: declared attitudes
gl8f@fermi.clas.Virginia.EDU (Greg Lindahl)
Mon, 13 Jul 1992 19:19:18 +0000
Re: Olympia: declared attitudes
rwallace@unix1.tcd.ie (russell wallace)
Mon, 13 Jul 1992 17:52:24 +0000
Re: Olympia: declared attitudes
skrenta@usl.com (Rich Skrenta)
Mon, 13 Jul 1992 18:58:34 +0000

Referenced By

Re: Olympia: declared attitudes
gl8f@fermi.clas.Virginia.EDU (Greg Lindahl)
Mon, 13 Jul 1992 19:19:18 +0000
Re: Olympia: declared attitudes
rwallace@unix1.tcd.ie (russell wallace)
Mon, 13 Jul 1992 17:52:24 +0000
Re: Olympia: declared attitudes
skrenta@usl.com (Rich Skrenta)
Mon, 13 Jul 1992 18:58:34 +0000