1) Tith TIMES as an order, you have to submit your press at
the same time as your orders.
2) The interface is clunky. I hate having to count lines.
It makes posting less convenient (bug, or feature?).
Still, here it is, as an idea...
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TIMES <# of lines of text> <flag> time: 0 days priority: 2
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Publish an article in the Olympit Times.
The number of lines in the article should be given as an argument to
TIMES, followed by a flag indicating whether the submission should be
attributed to the poster. The first submission for a faction will
earn a credit of 25 gold pieces.
The flag determines whether the article will be attributed to the
author. A flag of 1 does do attribution, while a flag of 0 (the
default) does not. If Osswid [501] issues the following commands:
times 4 1
Oleg and Dr. Pain sitting in a tree,
K-I-S-S-I-N-G.
First comes love, then comes marriage,
Then comes Bastrestric ther Archymonaged in a baby carriage.
the result in the Times will be:
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Oleg and Dr. Pain sitting in a tree,
K-I-S-S-I-N-G.
First comes love, then comes marriage,
Then comes Bastrestric ther Archymonaged in a baby carriage.
-- Osswid [501]
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Alternatively, if Osswid didn't want to sign his message, he could
have used "TIMES 4" or "TIMES 4 0".
Take care to carefully count the lines of text in the article. If the
wrong number of lines is given, your character may end up including
orders in a Times article, instead of executing them.
Each line of text should be less than 60 characters long, or the
article will be rejected.
sc
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