Re: Olympia: no ifs, ands, or buts

From: fletcher@netcom.com (F. Sullivan Segal)

Date: Sun, 10 May 1992 21:10:39 +0000

>hauck@cs.washington.edu (Scott Hauck) writes:
>> Finally, you should be able to test for number of men.  So, you could do:
>
>There are a couple of new wait options this turn, including WAIT MEN.
>The useful of it may be diminished by planned changes to the syntax
>of recruit, if I ever get around to implementing them.
>
>Comments on conditionals:
>

>
>	if item(501, gold) >= 100 and here(814)
        if item(501, gold) >= 100 and here( status(501, here), 814)

>But I will give some serious thought to providing a limited IF
>statement, and get back to you folks.
>
I would greatly prefer an ON statement over an if statement.  E.g:

ON <some-condition> <do-something>

This is much like the defaults, but more flexible-- allowing you
more possibilities than just fleeing when you are damaged, or
some command if you are idle.  Thus "set 833 idle 'study 112'"
becomes
       ON idle "study 112"

...which seems more intuitively extensible.

**** ASIDE ****

While I tend to agree that implementing a full programming language
would take away from the feel of the game (which is semi-interactive),
interaction takes too long to be effective in the current model.  IMHO
it would be ideal if game turns were run once a day, and there were
a command such as:

SET 0 TURN-REPORT 7

Each player could then choose a level of interaction appropriate to
them.  Turn summaries could be shipped out on weekends only, and
in general the only reason to send out a change-order would be if
your orders were misunderstood, or some catastophic event had
taken place.  End of the week turns could then consist of very
little other than turn summaries, and midweek updates could be
fairly short descriptions of what happened in the previous
game week (realtime day.).

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References

Olympia: no ifs, ands, or buts
hauck@cs.washington.edu (Scott Hauck)
Fri, 01 May 1992 08:02:12 +0000
Re: Olympia: no ifs, ands, or buts
skrenta@cbnewsg.att.com (Rich Skrenta)
Fri, 01 May 1992 16:36:37 +0000

Referenced By

Olympia: no ifs, ands, or buts
hauck@cs.washington.edu (Scott Hauck)
Fri, 01 May 1992 08:02:12 +0000
Re: Olympia: no ifs, ands, or buts
skrenta@cbnewsg.att.com (Rich Skrenta)
Fri, 01 May 1992 16:36:37 +0000