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

[Daniel Lepage <dplepage@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Monday, June 16, 2003, at 11:21  PM, Glotmorf wrote:

> On 6/16/03 at 11:02 PM Daniel Lepage wrote:
>
> > On Monday, June 16, 2003, at 10:56  PM, Glotmorf wrote:
> >
> > > On 6/16/03 at 10:49 PM Daniel Lepage wrote:
> > >
> > > > 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".
> > >
> > > Cound a region, then, be "hollow", such that the squares that 
> > > comprise
> > > it totally surround a void square?  And as long as the rest of the
> > > squares in a region remain contiguous, could one of a region's 
> > > squares
> > > go un-navigable?
> >
> > The answer to the first is yes. If the 18x18 block in the middle of 
> > the
> > grid were Void, and the rest were Turf, the ring would still be
> > considered a Region of Turf.
> >
> > Perhaps another definition could be added, a Complete Region, that has
> > no holes.
> >
> > The second question I'm not sure about. What do you mean by
> > 'un-navigable'? My proposed change only applies to Void vs. Non-Void
> > squares; the connection could be filled with Impassable objects and
> > still work. I could add Impassables if you'd like.
> >
> > I think what you're asking is, "as long as there's some connection,
> > could some parts of the region go dead?", in which case the answer is
> > yes. As long as the two endpoints are both within some region of
> > Non-Void, Mining is permissible. It doesn't matter of the size of the
> > region varies a lot, as long as there's always a region.
>
> Squares that are sufficiently deep are un-navigable, yet not 
> necessarily void.  I could theoretically mine a sufficiently deep 
> trench around you such that you couldn't leave the square except with 
> a speeder, or unless Barney fell into the trench.
>
> Were we to allow tunneling, we could have 3D regions that wrapped 
> around each other...

You want to come up with a way to put that on a web page?

As for trenches... I was assuming that the Mining Equipment would be 
flown in by speeder... how else are they gonna carry it in?

--
Wonko

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