On Sun, 10 Mar 2002, Daniel A. Koepke wrote: >I'm reconsidering changing special procedures to differentiate between mob >and violence pulse calls. The problem is that much of the existing >spec-procs rely upon ch being the mobile when there is no command. That could be considered a bug since you should assume 'me' is yourself, but not 'ch'. Not that it helps anything other than what you call that changes that have to be done. >These sorts of changes can get ugly; the problem is the side-effect of >altering the behavior of existing code (almost all non-stock spec-procs). >This indicates to me that this is NOT an appropriate change for a beta >release. Any thoughts? Splitting the special procedure into three (or four) functions, but that'll go over like a lead balloon. At least you could have stuff like Puff with a magic user battle script. Shopkeepers wouldn't be so hackish either. -- George Greer greerga@circlemud.org -- +---------------------------------------------------------------+ | FAQ: http://qsilver.queensu.ca/~fletchra/Circle/list-faq.html | | Archives: http://post.queensu.ca/listserv/wwwarch/circle.html | | Newbie List: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/circle-newbies/ | +---------------------------------------------------------------+
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