From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 21457 invoked by alias); 5 Sep 2004 17:01:51 -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 21435 invoked from network); 5 Sep 2004 17:01:50 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mailrouter3.execulink.net) (199.166.6.58) by sourceware.org with SMTP; 5 Sep 2004 17:01:50 -0000 Received: from diamond.ansuz.sooke.bc.ca (ppp159.ac2.56k.execulink.com [209.213.229.159]) by mailrouter3.execulink.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id i85H1Cf26950; Sun, 5 Sep 2004 13:01:16 -0400 Received: from localhost (mskala@localhost) by diamond.ansuz.sooke.bc.ca (8.10.2/8.10.2) with ESMTP id i85Gv9529780; Sun, 5 Sep 2004 12:57:27 -0400 Date: Sun, 05 Sep 2004 17:11:00 -0000 From: mskala@ansuz.sooke.bc.ca To: Eric McDonald cc: Elijah Meeks , Xconq list Subject: Re: Feature Request: Advance Prohibits Advance In-Reply-To: <413B43B0.5030000@phy.cmich.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-SW-Source: 2004/txt/msg01115.txt.bz2 On Sun, 5 Sep 2004, Eric McDonald wrote: > If I understand what you're saying, you're suggesting that each side > should have a finite quantity of a certain material in its treasury, and > that material can only be used to research one, and no more than one, > advance. The chosen advance then sets the tone for which other advances > can be reserached (through the 'advance-needed-to-research' table). Right. With some variations, I think that kind of approach can produce most of the same behaviours as each of the proposed new features, and it already should work with the existing code. One way it might fall down would be if there are a LOT of independent commitments the side may make - ground or space battles AND opening boiled eggs at the big or the little end AND less filling or tastes great AND matter or antimatter-based warheads AND (and so on). In that case it might end up requiring one new material type for each choice, which could be a problem. -- Matthew Skala mskala@ansuz.sooke.bc.ca Embrace and defend. http://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/