Locality proposal

Rich Skrenta (skrenta@shadow.com)
Wed, 26 Jan 94 23:42:49 EST

This is a proposal to reduce on the number of unimportant locations
which appear in the turn report.

If contents of an entire province were reported in one piece, the separate
reports for each sublocation could be eliminated.

Instead of:

Forest [xx99]
-------------
...
Inner locations:
Yew grove [ee00], yew grove, 1 day
Castle Berkshire [nn11], castle, defense 40, owner:
Osswid [501], with three pikemen
Deep [gg66], mine, depth 2, 9% damaged

Seen here:
Feasel the Wicked [5901], with ten peasants

Yew grove [ee00], yew grove, in province Forest [xx99]
------------------------------------------------------

Routes leaving Yew grove:
Out, to Forest [xx99], 1 day

Castle Berkshire [nn11], castle, in province Forest [xx99]
----------------------------------------------------------

Routes leaving Castle Berkshire:
Out, to Forest [xx99], 0 days

Seen here:
Osswid [501], with three pikemen
Warren Buffet [1200]

The sublocation reports would be removed, and full interior views provided
for all of the sublocations:

Forest [xx99]
-------------
...
Inner locations:
Yew grove [ee00], yew grove, 1 day
Castle Berkshire [nn11], castle, defense 40, owner:
Osswid [501], with three pikemen
Warren Buffet [1200]
Deep [gg66], mine, depth 2, 9% damaged

Seen here:
Feasel the Wicked [5901], with ten peasants

Third-party reports would be shared for all locations in the province.
A report of someone mining in [gg66] would show up in [xx99]'s log.

This eliminates useless and redundant text in the report. Occupants of
sublocations don't have to be listed twice, and the useless "Routes
leaving...Out" is no longer needed.

--
Rich Skrenta <skrenta@shadow.com>


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