Re: Announcing: Fyleet, Crobe, Sangraal

[dylanw@demon.net (Dylan O'Donnell)]

"Adam Atkinson" <ghira@mistral.co.uk> writes:
> On 28-Aug-99 00:03:22, Dylan O'Donnell said:
> 
> >> Do people _really_ make very frequent use of the full power of
> >> advanced parsers?
> 
> >Yes, actually. Not convoluted sentences like the one above, usually,
> >but three or four word commands like HIT TROLL WITH SWORD or PUT JEWEL
> >ON PEDESTAL; I'm _used_ to being able to say things like that with the
> >expectation that, even if they don't work, the game will understand
> >what I'm trying to do. It's jarring (even if perfectly reasonable, as
> >in the case of games from this era) when it doesn't.
> 
> I'll check the docs. We _may_ have a reason to recompile here...
> I thought the specs for the Phoenix system said that all words after
> the second would be ignored. in which case "hit troll with sword" or
> "put jewel on pedestal" might seem to work...

Well, they may in certain cases. But certainly SIT ON THRONE in
Crobe, for example, gets "I don't understand that!" when SIT is
understood. It really just demands a habit of thinking which I've
fallen out of in the past, pampered years :-)

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