Re: Olympia Stacking 'Gotcha'

From: sjc@cs.purdue.EDU (Steve Chapin)

Date: Tue, 09 Jun 1992 20:47:32 +0000

}} In article <1992Jun9.195735.9494@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> gl8f@fermi.clas.Virginia.EDU (Greg Lindahl) writes:
}}
}} In article <18827@ector.cs.purdue.edu> sjc@cs.purdue.EDU (Steve Chapin) writes:
}}
}} >Hmm.  How will the Dr. Pains of the world find their victims, if
}} >they're hidden deep within stacks?
}}
}} We were already saying that units were going to become less visible,
}} especially small, non-flashy ones. Dr. Pain easily gets a look at them
}} by lying in wait outside the city... or by combing the streets,
}} looking hard for his friend (er, victim).

Right, but no one has as yet proposed a mechanism for unrolling the
deep stacks (ones in which it is not "convenient" to print the whole
stack to the turn report).

To clarify, I certainly think it is reasonable that I can't, from the
River Asart on the northern boundary of Drassa, see into Drassa City
(if it existed), and inside that to the market, and inside that to
someone's stall.  However, if I stack A under B under C under D, why
should A and B be invisible?  If they are all single man units, it
seems odd that I could see 2 of the 4 guys standing right in front of
me.  That's the point I'm making; from what I've read, if I have a guy
jump out, do something nasty, and then stack deep within the bowels of
my hierarchy, no one will see him...

sjc@cs.purdue.edu               Steve Chapin           Today's Grammar Lesson:
                      I won one game, three to two, too.

"Oh my God!  I shot my eye out!"  (Ralphie Parker, in "A Christmas Story")

References

Re: Olympia Stacking 'Gotcha'
M22367@mwvm.mitre.org
Tue, 09 Jun 1992 16:05:32 +0000
Re: Olympia Stacking 'Gotcha'
skrenta@cbnewsg.att.com (Rich Skrenta)
Tue, 09 Jun 1992 18:30:10 +0000
Re: Olympia Stacking 'Gotcha'
sjc@cs.purdue.EDU (Steve Chapin)
Tue, 09 Jun 1992 19:12:19 +0000
Re: Olympia Stacking 'Gotcha'
gl8f@fermi.clas.Virginia.EDU (Greg Lindahl)
Tue, 09 Jun 1992 19:57:35 +0000

Referenced By

Re: Olympia Stacking 'Gotcha'
M22367@mwvm.mitre.org
Tue, 09 Jun 1992 16:05:32 +0000
Re: Olympia Stacking 'Gotcha'
skrenta@cbnewsg.att.com (Rich Skrenta)
Tue, 09 Jun 1992 18:30:10 +0000
Re: Olympia Stacking 'Gotcha'
sjc@cs.purdue.EDU (Steve Chapin)
Tue, 09 Jun 1992 19:12:19 +0000
Re: Olympia Stacking 'Gotcha'
gl8f@fermi.clas.Virginia.EDU (Greg Lindahl)
Tue, 09 Jun 1992 19:57:35 +0000