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<LI><em>From</em>: <A HREF="mailto:Michael.Willey#abnamro,com">Michael.Willey#abnamro,com</A></LI>
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Subject: [MUD-Dev] Re: (fwd) Re: command parsers: a modest proposa...
Author: mud-dev#kanga,nu (Richard Bartle
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Date: 7/8/98 3:13 PM
>Chris Gray <cg#ami-cg,GraySage.Edmonton.AB.CA> wrote:
>>What are the choices here:
>> - drop all of them
>> - complain about ambiguity
>> - drop some "random" rock
>> - allow the user to choose
> Of these, the second and fourth get in the way of the game.
>The real choice is between the first and the third. I chose the
>first because it fell naturally from the way I was processing
>adjectives and so on as operators applied to sets of candidate
>objects. Once players got used to it, switching to another version
>was not an attractive option.
I would disagree with that - As a player, I'd rather have the game
abort a command than perform an unwanted command. I'd rather it
do nothing than do the wrong thing. For me the dividing line
between choosing method 2 or 4, then, would depend on how cleanly
#4 could be implemented.
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00092" HREF="msg00092.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: 1997 CGDC AI Roundtable Moderator's Report</A></strong>,
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00106" HREF="msg00106.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: 1997 CGDC AI Roundtable Moderator's Report</A></strong>,
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00082" HREF="msg00082.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: (fwd) Re: command parsers: a modest proposa</A></strong>,
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