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In article <12JAN199311494010@yin.irisa.fr>, cedelle@yin.irisa.fr (Alain Cedelle) writes:
>  I think GB will stay of few interest until this darn scrap command be modified
> in a safer sense with something like a 'confirm' option.
> 
>  In the games i played, i always erroneously scrapped various things. It was
> all the F's on one planet since i had typed "scr Fxxxx", an other day it was
> my @, since i had a typo in the ship number.
> 
>  But this morning was among the best operation : i wanted to type "cs /Del"
> but typoed it to "sc /Del" ....
>  Result : one D ship scrapped, and lost all in the space.
> 
>  AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH !!! pleaaaaase !
> 
> a.c


Seems to me like your brain -> fingers connection needs
a confirm option.  :-)		-Hydra
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Dan A. Dickey      ddickey@cray.com

In article <12JAN199311494010@yin.irisa.fr> cedelle@yin.irisa.fr (Alain Cedelle) writes:
>
> I think GB will stay of few interest until this darn scrap command be modified
>in a safer sense with something like a 'confirm' option.
>

I dunno... I've been scrapping H's and O's for years and no one
seems to mind... :)

A "confirm" option is not feasible due to the way the server works
with all the players (it can't stop and wait for you to say yes.)

An idea I've had which I intend to eventually implement is to make a
toggle switch you could set/unset requiring you to be at the scope 
of the ship you wish to scrap for the scrap to work.  That would
seriously eliminate mistaken scraps for me.

Chris

In article <1993Jan12.085911.2624@hemlock.cray.com> ddickey@aspen34.cray.com (Dan A. Dickey) writes:
>
>In article <12JAN199311494010@yin.irisa.fr>, cedelle@yin.irisa.fr (Alain Cedelle) writes:
>>  I think GB will stay of few interest until this darn scrap command be modified
>> in a safer sense with something like a 'confirm' option.
>
>Seems to me like your brain -> fingers connection needs
>a confirm option.  :-)		-Hydra

Yaah...

Anyone know where I can get one of those?

Like Radio Shack maybe?

brain -> mouth would come in even more handy.

However, I am looking to get rid of my brain -> p*nis option which
keeps getting in the way of some really good times.

OBGB: The nyu games starts in three days.  If you registered and
aren't gonna play, I hope you get a fungus like growth on your
genitals which permanently manifests itself in the shape of Don
King.  You can avoid this permament damage by e-mailing the God of
the game degaron@groucho.cs.nyu.edu to inform him you can't play.

Chris

In article <43387@sdcc12.ucsd.edu>, cs178waj@sdcc5.ucsd.edu (Christopher Fodor) writes:
> In article <12JAN199311494010@yin.irisa.fr> cedelle@yin.irisa.fr (Alain Cedelle) writes:
>>
>> I think GB will stay of few interest until this darn scrap command be modified
>>in a safer sense with something like a 'confirm' option.
>>
> 
> I dunno... I've been scrapping H's and O's for years and no one
> seems to mind... :)
> 
> A "confirm" option is not feasible due to the way the server works
> with all the players (it can't stop and wait for you to say yes.)
> 
> An idea I've had which I intend to eventually implement is to make a
> toggle switch you could set/unset requiring you to be at the scope 
> of the ship you wish to scrap for the scrap to work.  That would
> seriously eliminate mistaken scraps for me.
> 
> Chris

Or perhaps change the command where it parses the scrap command from
if(!strcmp("scrap", args[0])) .... 

to

if(!strncmp("scrap", args[0], 5)) ....

This way you have to type out scrap explicitly or it won't parse.

Another way to fix this is to have a user state attached to each
descriptor indicating what kind of informationb that the server is
waiting for. This can be rather cumbersome at this stage of development....

-Garrett



> 

cs178waj@sdcc5.ucsd.edu (Christopher Fodor) writes:

>I dunno... I've been scrapping H's and O's for years and no one
>seems to mind... :)

  I disagree since I can think of at least 2 objections that immediately
come to mind.  Namely, mine and a certain constantly purring rapidly
reproducing fuzzy creature's.  Does the Fall 90 pooh game dredge up any
memories?  

>An idea I've had which I intend to eventually implement is to make a
>toggle switch you could set/unset requiring you to be at the scope 
>of the ship you wish to scrap for the scrap to work.  That would
>seriously eliminate mistaken scraps for me.

  I like the sounds of this.


					-Aesir



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Hmmm.  I have a solution which would help solve the unwanted scraping of
valuable ships, without tying up the server, and without rewriting the
ship database.  Why not set a threshold for the cost of a ship which can
be scraped non-explicitly.

Example

scrapyard 100
*scrapyard value set to 100.
scrap
* ship s1234 scraped, cost 20, recovered 10
* ship @10 could not be scraped since you have requested it be protected
from moronic and careless use of the scrap command.  You must scrap the
ship individually.

Now, this wouldn't protect you from making a typo with the number, but I
think it would help eliviate part of the problem.


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