Report format

Philippe Duchon (duchon@clipper.ens.fr)
Mon, 20 Jul 92 14:46:38 +0200

A few thoughts about turn report format, while reading last turn's
report...

First, all these "Gave so much of this to XXX" followed by
"Received n of this from YYY" are a bit too much... Could we
have only one of them (the "received" message being used only
for trade with another faction) ? Or maybe we could have options
for this ?

(BTW, I just notice a funny bug... look at this:
8: 2054: > give 2132 "lumber" 22
8: 2054: Gave 22 lumber [7] to Silk [2132].
8: 2132: Received 22 lumber [7] from Silk [2132].
I swear I haven't TWO units called Silk...)

Another thing I'd like to have is an easy way to note two-or-more-lines
messages, like

1: 1393: Study military leadership at a cost of 2 gold per day for one
1: 1393: day.

I know there's a . only at the end of the whole message, but as there
are one-line messages without a dot, it doesn't do much good. Rich
stubbornly (IMHO) refuses a slight change in the line headers :

Notice the change ?
|
v
1: 1393. Study military leadership at a cost of 2 gold per day for one
1: 1393: day.

The dot just tells my (to be) report processor to glue those two lines
together. And for those of you who still READ their turn reports, I
believe it doesn't destroy the overall readability...

(Rich: forgive me for coming back to this, I'm just trying to get popular
help... I promise I'll give up one-day WORKs and STUDYs...)

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Philippe Duchon

aka Hyren Baranur [522]


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