Re: Announcing: Fyleet, Crobe, Sangraal

[jonadab@bright.net (Jonadab the Unsightly One)]

"Adam Atkinson" <ghira@mistral.co.uk> wrote:

> Do people _really_ make very frequent use of the full power of
> advanced parsers?

In the majority of the commands, no way.  For crying out loud,
the majority of the commands I give are a single letter.  

But in the majority of the games I play, I do make use of the
more advanced features of the parser at one time or another,
and if the game doesn't understand I get frustrated.  Fast.
It's usually because the solution I've thought up for
the puzzle I was stuck can't be communicated with simpler
syntax, and the fact that one line after another the game
doesn't understand my commands indicates that the author
didn't anticipate the action I'm trying to do.  Some actions
can't be stated in two words.  But by the time I realise that
my problem isn't guess-the-syntax but having the wrong solution,
I'm already quite frustrated.  I usually don't finish those 
games.


'Right!  Now the first person to discover twelfth base 
gets a ghost point and one free "Get Out of Jail"...'
           -- Calvin