Re: New Game

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

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

From Olaf Hesebeck <olaf@hesebeck.de>:

> > >             Do you feel the the possibility of writing scripts and
having
> > > these run in your positions is beneficial ?
> >
> > I would think so.
> [...]
> > Now (after about 2 Month later) it hast a nearly complete language
> > with subprogramms, functions, user variables an acess to nearly
> > all game parameters from the report, and there some players plan to
> > write realy complex programms for their units.
>
> I think there are several players who would enjoy the possibility to
> write complex scripts, but only if they don't get frustrated by the
> result of their efforts each time. It's quite hard to write a script
> without errors, unless you can test it, and if some orders depend on
> previous ones, a little mistake can have quite a large effect. Therefore
> I think it's crucial to provide some kind of automatic order checker.

You are right, there ist a danger in this. In this case, the result
is a prefilled order template, where you insert unautomated orders,
so you can have a look, if the result seems logical, and change
if you want. Before using the Orders, ther ist another server side
checker, which can't check the skripts, but the commands and informs
you, to try better if sytactical or real clear logial errors arrise.

But im working on some debuging helps, to give authors of complex
scripts tools to find errors. All is in the grow, and without
the contact to the users, it would have never grown so fast. :-)

> On the other hand, a script language could enable the players to write
> conditional orders, which are executed if prior orders have failed for
> some reason.

In some cases, it might be possible to write robuster scripts,
but there are still strategic errors, which might be hard to find.
After all it's just a tool, and it's up to the user if he exessivly
wants to use scripts an  may get in Danger. (mine are rather simpel
ones)

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
Olaf Hesebeck <olaf@hesebeck.de>
Sat, 13 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000