From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 26146 invoked by alias); 22 May 2004 19:02:24 -0000 Mailing-List: contact xconq7-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: xconq7-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 26138 invoked from network); 22 May 2004 19:02:23 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO web13124.mail.yahoo.com) (216.136.174.142) by sourceware.org with SMTP; 22 May 2004 19:02:23 -0000 Message-ID: <20040522190222.79034.qmail@web13124.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [67.170.221.152] by web13124.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Sat, 22 May 2004 12:02:22 PDT Date: Sat, 22 May 2004 19:02:00 -0000 From: Elijah Meeks Subject: Wrecking Revisited To: xconq7@sources.redhat.com In-Reply-To: <1085247439.1485.408.camel@localhost.localdomain> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-SW-Source: 2004/txt/msg00388.txt.bz2 In Specula I wanted to have it so that undead couldn't build units, but instead gained more Zombie units when they wiped out regular units. I thought I'd found a novel solution: Set the wrecked-type of normal units to "Zombie" Set the possible-sides of Zombies to "Undead" only I figured that this would wipe out the created Zombie units for any player but the Undead, so that when the Undead wiped out a bunch of units, poof, they had a bunch of zombies, while when anybody else wiped out a bunch of units, they'd just disappear. Anyone who is familiar with the way wrecked-type works probably isn't in suspense. Instead of only allowing the creation of Zombies for the set side, it gives the warning: Leaving unit on disallowed side This is not fatal, but may cause more serious problems later on. Do you want to continue playing this game? (if 'no', you will get a chance to save it) I think designers would be better served if the code simply vanished any disallowed unit without reporting an error. I can't see much reason for it to work like it does, but maybe I'm missing something. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Domains – Claim yours for only $14.70/year http://smallbusiness.promotions.yahoo.com/offer