shadowfirebird on Fri, 8 Dec 2006 05:39:01 -0700 (MST) |
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Re: [s-d] [s-b] Proposal: you know you want 'em |
> Transactions are a way to ensure that, if you trying to do something > and it doesn't work, you're left in the state you were in before you > started trying to do it. In real world terms, buying something is a > transaction where I give you money and you give me stuff; if you > discover after I give you money that you're out of stuff, I get my > money back. Hmm. Probably just newbie me being thick but I'm struggling to find a use for that in b-nomic. In your example, you could simply have a rule that said: "If the shop is out of stuff, it doesn't take the money from the player". I would hope that that sort of thing would be there in the rules anyway. > _______________________________________________ > spoon-discuss mailing list > spoon-discuss@xxxxxxxxx > http://lists.ellipsis.cx/mailman/listinfo/spoon-discuss > -- Don't tell me what the poets are doing Don't tell me that they're talking tough Don't tell me that they're antisocial Somehow not antisocial enough... _______________________________________________ spoon-discuss mailing list spoon-discuss@xxxxxxxxx http://lists.ellipsis.cx/mailman/listinfo/spoon-discuss