From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 20385 invoked by alias); 4 Jul 2004 21:57:36 -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 20378 invoked from network); 4 Jul 2004 21:57:36 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO av6-1-sn2.hy.skanova.net) (81.228.8.106) by sourceware.org with SMTP; 4 Jul 2004 21:57:36 -0000 Received: by av6-1-sn2.hy.skanova.net (Postfix, from userid 502) id 8BDEC37E44; Sun, 4 Jul 2004 23:57:35 +0200 (CEST) Received: from smtp2-1-sn2.hy.skanova.net (smtp2-1-sn2.hy.skanova.net [81.228.8.177]) by av6-1-sn2.hy.skanova.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C15E37E42; Sun, 4 Jul 2004 23:57:35 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [212.181.162.155] (h155n1fls24o1048.bredband.comhem.se [212.181.162.155]) by smtp2-1-sn2.hy.skanova.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 64B7037E43; Sun, 4 Jul 2004 23:57:34 +0200 (CEST) X-Sender: u22611592@m1.226.comhem.se Message-Id: In-Reply-To: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Mon, 05 Jul 2004 03:30:00 -0000 To: mskala@ansuz.sooke.bc.ca From: Hans Ronne Subject: Re: Just say no to bungee paratroopers. Cc: xconq7@sources.redhat.com X-SW-Source: 2004/txt/msg00647.txt.bz2 >On Sun, 4 Jul 2004, Hans Ronne wrote: >> But I have always regarded these freebies as aberrations. It makes much >> more sense to charge the full price whenever you do something. There may be >> restrictions built in by the game designer, such as if the enter action >> requires more ACPs than the unit can possess. In that case, ACP-less entry > >In fairness, the designer may also be intentionally exploiting the freebie >behaviour. True. Provided that he knows about them, of course. But I doubt that many game designers were aware of the kernel freebies, at least not before this thread got started :-). Hans