From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 26316 invoked by alias); 17 Aug 2004 16:14:35 -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 26309 invoked from network); 17 Aug 2004 16:14:35 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ob2.cmich.edu) (141.209.20.21) by sourceware.org with SMTP; 17 Aug 2004 16:14:35 -0000 Received: from egate1.central.cmich.local ([141.209.15.85]) by ob2.cmich.edu (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i7HG9SP6031906; Tue, 17 Aug 2004 12:09:28 -0400 Received: from leon.phy.cmich.edu ([141.209.165.20]) by egate1.central.cmich.local with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.0.2195.6713); Tue, 17 Aug 2004 12:11:51 -0400 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by leon.phy.cmich.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 402EC70011; Tue, 17 Aug 2004 12:14:29 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2004 16:37:00 -0000 From: Eric McDonald To: Jim Kingdon Cc: xconq7@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: Major bug and what to do about it (long) In-Reply-To: <200408170428.i7H4SOg21771@panix5.panix.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-OriginalArrivalTime: 17 Aug 2004 16:11:51.0915 (UTC) FILETIME=[E826DBB0:01C48474] X-CanItPRO-Stream: default X-Spam-Score: -0.9 () X-Bayes-Prob: 0.0001 X-Scanned-By: CanIt (www . canit . ca) X-SW-Source: 2004/txt/msg00925.txt.bz2 On Tue, 17 Aug 2004, Jim Kingdon wrote: > I will say that it is an *obscure* part of the game. To the beginner, > it isn't clear what the difference between attack and overrun is. I > certainly played xconq for a while before I discovered attack, with no > obvious grave loss of capability or fun. I agree that it is obscure, but since at least you and I use it to good effect, it cannot be considered unuseful or unused. Therefore, I would argue, it should be kept as an option in some form or another. Eric