Re: [Xconq-hackers] A modest proposal to simplify variant development

[Elijah M. <eli...@ya...>]

The SDL interface only shows the units that the
selected unit can build.  This is preferable,
especially when the game in question has a hundred
unit-types or if units are meant to be special/hidden.


--- ms...@an... wrote:

> On Fri, 27 Apr 2007, Massimo Campostrini wrote:
> > If a unit (or terrain, or material) type cannot
> appear in a game
> > (i.e., it is not present and it can't be created
> later on), don't
> > report the type at all in the interface, neither
> in the help screens,
> > nor in the unit/material summary...
> 
> I think the current interface is actually meant to
> work that way; but as
> you've noticed, it doesn't quite work.  Part of the
> problem is that it's
> not necessarily obvious which units and other types
> can or can't exist.
> To get the right answer you have to trace
> recursively through which units
> exist at setup time, which units they can construct
> (including issues like
> "this unit supposedly can create that unit, but
> doing so would require
> more construction points than it can ever actually
> have"), which units can
> change to other types as a result of wrecking and
> capture, and so on.  I
> think the current interface tends to err on the side
> of caution - it shows
> types if it thinks there's ever a possibility of the
> type existing, even
> if it can't actually.
> 
> This would be a fun use for Prolog, actually - we
> could get the whole
> theorem-proving thing going for whether a given type
> can ever exist.
> 
> Anyway, I'd certainly be in favour of improving this
> aspect of the
> interface, though my expectation is that it might be
> tricky.
> -- 
> Matthew Skala
> ms...@an...                    Embrace
> and defend.
> http://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/
> 
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