Re: [spoon-discuss] Re: [Spoon-business] Mining Fix

[Daniel Lepage <dplepage@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Monday, June 16, 2003, at 10:42  PM, Glotmorf wrote:

> Regarding the list of locations in mining...Basically, the original 
> intent was to make it necessary that a path be tracable between a 
> square to be mined and a service mall...a navigable path.  Thus would 
> be prevented mining to China, since the square becomes un-navigable 
> after it gets four levels deep.  You could still mine to China, but in 
> the course of doing so you'd need to make a terrace-sided pit.
>
> Of course, this didn't exactly come out in the actual phrasing.  Wonko 
> is right; all that was necessary was the existence of a service mall, 
> since, in an XYZ environment, a "location" doesn't necessarily contain 
> a navigable square.
>
> But Wonko's attempt to fix this is as yet insufficient: What 
> constitutes a "region"?  Do the squares, for example, have to be 
> contiguous?

See the prerequisite proposal __Connectivity__. It defines Regions. If 
it fails, this prop has no effect.

Roughly, a region is a set of squares that all have contiguous paths to 
each other such that all the paths fulfill a given set of properties. 
In this case, the property is "A substance other than Void".

--
Wonko

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