Re: New Game

From: "S. Schuemann" <tschato@iname.com>

Date: Sat, 13 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

From: Carol Mulholland <Carol@flagship-uk.demon.co.uk>

> S. Schuemann wrote:
>
> > i found it anoying to give repeating basic orders
> > to units with fixed targets. (e.g. making wood, iron or stones or
> > bringing stones to places where they are needed continously.
>
> I'm puzzled: is this what I'd understand by 'standing orders'?
>
> Don't most big-scale games have standing orders?
>
> Maybe I've got hold of the wrong end of the stick, as so often?

Well if it's just that, no prob, but normaly you have to look,
if still wood can be made (don't kill whole forest ;-)) or
if there is a transport at the Mountains, to carray away stone,
so the stonemakers can give them to the transport, and of course
the transports have to move around the map, and Atlantis in the
Versions I know, and this special game have no Method to have
a complex route as standing command. And especially not with
ability to say the transport where to give what to special workers.

Whith the scripting on the other side, you can say:

; Just make wood if forest ist big enough
  #if region.trees>800 { make wood } else { learn woodmaking }
  ; if transport unit (e.g.1234) is here, give all wood away
  #ifunit 1234 { give 1234 unit.wood wood }

(translated, as Eressea, the game, is in german)

So that you can't do with standing orders (In Eressea/Atlanis),
and there are much more complex examples.

Maybe I shold have made clearer. :-)

Greetings!
         Steffen

References

New Game
"Rui Pedro Santos" <Rui.Santos@esoterica.pt>
Wed, 10 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000
Re: New Game
"S. Schuemann" <tschato@iname.com>
Sat, 13 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000
Re: New Game
Carol Mulholland <Carol@flagship-uk.demon.co.uk>
Sat, 13 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Referenced By

New Game
"Rui Pedro Santos" <Rui.Santos@esoterica.pt>
Wed, 10 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000
Re: New Game
"S. Schuemann" <tschato@iname.com>
Sat, 13 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000
Re: New Game
Carol Mulholland <Carol@flagship-uk.demon.co.uk>
Sat, 13 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000