[projectaon] Re: Flowcharts
- From: Jonathan Blake <jonathan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: projectaon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2012 14:20:12 -0800
On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 11:50 AM, David KubeÄka <kubecka.dav@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hello to all after a longer break...
>
>
> 2012/11/17 David Davis <feline1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>
>> On a more general note to all the specifics below -
>> would it be possible to add a Key to the flowcharts, just to explain the
>> colour coding and abbreviations?
>> I admit in only took my brain about 25 seconds to work out that, for
>> instance, a green âAnKâ meant âAnimal Kinship required for this choiceâ ...
>> but it is good practice to not even make me have to think for 25 seconds ;)
>>
>
> I have responded to Simon's similar note in my previous email but apparently
> it got overlooked because of bad formatting done by my email client. So once
> again: "Yeah, I definitely plan to make a legend somewhere. I still don't
> know where to put it exactly. Separate legend for each book or single
> centralized one? Any thoughts?
Just a suggestion: we made the legend the root node in our DOT. Kind
of weird, but a simple solution.
>> (er) 14tcok 276: mark it on your Action Chart as a Special Item which you
>> carry in your tunic pocket -> mark it on your Action Chart as a Backpack
>> Item [so: Keys are always Backpack Items. Credit David KubeÄka [DK] ]
> instead of what Jon later suggested because, as I said before, the problem
> with this is that you can take Green key once as Special item and once as
> Backpack item. Moreover it isn't specified in the list of Special item's you
> can bring to the next adventure so Simon's solution is really only possible
> one.
I see your point. I now agree with making this change.
> The issue I have changed my mind about is that concerning Sabito (or Vial of
> Blue Pills). I quote here my original post which was quite hard to look at
> :-)
>
> "I think things are more complicated here. You can get some Sabito under the
> name 'Vial of Blue Pills' also in book no.7 section 227. In fact situations
> in 7/227 and 9/155 are almost the same: you find some items one of which is
> mysterious Vial of Blue Pills. If you have Healing you can 'identify the
> nature of the Blue Pills', but even if you don't you can still take it and
> later use it without knowing exactly about its effects. That is quite
> strange and moreover inconsistent with one similar situation I can think of,
> namely in 3/10 when you can examine several liquids but you cannot take them
> unless you identify their effects.
> Therefore I think it should be the same case here. You find Vial of Blue
> Pills but only when you have Healing you can take it as a dose of Sabito. By
> that name it should also be referred in choices, i.e. 'If you have a Vial of
> Blue Pills' -> 'If you have some Sabito'. That would also be consistent with
> later books which speak exclusively about Sabito."
Looking into it, we already changed "have a Vial of Blue Pills" to
"possess some Sabito" in 09tcof 289 for basically this same reason. So
lets leave it as is.
--
Jon
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