From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 28489 invoked by alias); 4 Jan 2005 19:30:25 -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 27793 invoked from network); 4 Jan 2005 19:30:17 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO gouda.execulink.net) (199.166.6.56) by sourceware.org with SMTP; 4 Jan 2005 19:30:17 -0000 Received: from opal.ansuz.sooke.bc.ca (dsl113.rba1.pppoe.execulink.com [66.203.174.114]) by gouda.execulink.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id j04JUEr20697; Tue, 4 Jan 2005 14:30:14 -0500 Date: Tue, 04 Jan 2005 19:30:00 -0000 From: mskala@ansuz.sooke.bc.ca To: Eric McDonald cc: xconq7@sources.redhat.com, xconq-developers@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Weather tidbit In-Reply-To: <414E41E2.2030502@phy.cmich.edu> Message-ID: References: <414E41E2.2030502@phy.cmich.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-SW-Source: 2005/txt/msg00019.txt.bz2 On Sun, 19 Sep 2004, Eric McDonald wrote: > > I think if I wanted to model a hurricane, I might do it by having the > > storm be a unit that detonates on every turn but doesn't destroy itself > To the best of my knowledge, the wind code acts as an impediment to > movement and not a driver for it. But, it would be interesting to extend Digging through my mail to see what messages from my vacation I could delete, I found the above very old message and thought of another game-design idea that seems worth mentioning for the archives: what could be done would be to make the "hurricane" unit be controlled by iplayer, and make it move more or less at random. I think that could be done by making it blind and invulnerable, and probably also unable to attack except with its detonation. Then I think iplayer will tend to move it randomly. If it's also set up so that it only *can* move in the direction the wind is blowing, then we have a unit that moves where the wind carries it. -- Matthew Skala mskala@ansuz.sooke.bc.ca Embrace and defend. http://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/