Re: ACCEPT command blues

Bruce Glassco (bglassco@mscfs.edu)
Wed, 16 Apr 1997 10:52:06 -0500

At 07:28 AM 4/16/97 -0600, you wrote:
>Gentlemen:
>
>At 10:55 +0000 4/16/97, Fox wrote:
>>Has anyone had anything but grief from the ACCEPT command yet? I'm
>>finding that most people I talk to are either forgetting to set the
>>accept permissions on when they need them or else they are simply setting
>>ACCEPT 0 0 in their faction entity command list.
>>
>>Would anybody be unhappy to see the back of this command?
>
>No way man. The bother of an accept command is nothing compared to the
>bother of a drop list.

I agree that the inconvenience seems minor compared to the alternative.
However, I don't see any reason why the ACCEPT command shouldn't be like
HOSTILE, DEFEND, and other attitude commands, in lasting until it gets
turned off, instead of being renewed every turn.

bg

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