Re: Olympia & Ships

From: skrenta@cbnewsg.att.com (Rich Skrenta)

Date: Tue, 05 May 1992 19:24:20 +0000

hauck@cs.washington.edu (Scott Hauck) writes:
> exploring with
> a ship is very difficult in Olympia, because although sea routes are short,
> you cannot explore the unknown very rapidly because you need to know the
> name of the route you are going to travel before you travel it

Yes, this is a problem.  Your solution seems reasonable; I'll consider
it some more and put it on the to-do list.

move north northwest northeast west east

gl8f@fermi.clas.Virginia.EDU (Greg Lindahl) writes:
>> The second thing I don't like is that apparently a single man can sail
>> a ship.
>
> How critical is this? Is it worthwhile for Rich to add a new skill,
> and for players to have to jump through more hoops before they can
> sail a ship?

Jumping through hoops is what skills are all about.  I do plan to
add a sailing skill.  Scott's proposal to have the crew ASSIST is
intruiging.  However:

> It is annoying that everyone onboard ship can't do
> anything while the ship is moving, though.

I like Scotts SAIL/ASSIST idea because it makes moving a ship just
a tad more difficult than moving around on land.  Unfortunately,
there are some implementation details which would make it very
difficult to allow units to do anything while a stack is moving.
Study is of course easy, but virtually every other command would
want to query the unit's location, which is undefined during movement.

I may just leave sailing alone until I figure out how to deal with
these sticky issues.

First on my list is to allow small boats to travel on the
ocean, and ships to travel up rivers.  No doubt this change alone
will open a whole can of worms.

--
Rich Skrenta

References

Re: Olympia & Ships
gl8f@fermi.clas.Virginia.EDU (Greg Lindahl)
Tue, 05 May 1992 17:07:09 +0000

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Re: Olympia & Ships
gl8f@fermi.clas.Virginia.EDU (Greg Lindahl)
Tue, 05 May 1992 17:07:09 +0000