Re: Time beats phases-and-points

John Morrow (morrow@gandalf.rutgers.edu)
Mon, 26 Sep 94 15:14:05 EDT

>> HOWEVER, I do wish you;d allow diagonal movement, and make it cost
>> say 1.5 times as much as an orthogonal move. It's a decent approximation,
>> and makes moving faster so you can do more stuff in a month, and
>> is more realistic to boot. Is there some reason why this is not done?

>Hmmm, no. Should I allow this?

Bear in mind that this would also add 4 more exits to each location
(NW, NE, SW, SE) which would have drastic impacts on location control,
port cities, special movement locations (Uldim Pass, etc.), mapping,
the MOVE command, etc.

John Morrow


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