Markus Armbruster
a00f9e200e
parse_map_flags() silently truncates map flags after the first 't' or 'r'. This makes it accept arguments "true" and "revert". However, it also breaks the perfectly sensible argument "ts", which should show ships just like "st", but doesn't. info bmap & friends document arguments "true" and "revert", and also suggest flags 't' and 'r'. What a mess. Make argument "revert" a special case. Deprecate flag 'r', and clean up truncation there. Don't truncate after flag 't'. If any bad flags follow, ignore everything after 't', but deprecate that usage.
35 lines
1.7 KiB
Perl
35 lines
1.7 KiB
Perl
.TH Command SHAREBMAP
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.NA sharebmap "Share parts of your bmap with another country"
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.LV Expert
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.SY "sharebmap <CNUM/CNAME> <SECTS> [<des>]"
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This command will share all of the information on your bmap with the
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country <CNUM/CNAME>. In order for it to work, they must be friendly
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towards you and your bmaps must already overlap to some extent. Note
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that your 'working' bmaps are not compared for this, but rather your 'true' bmaps. In particular, you can not fool the game into thinking
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that your bmaps overlap through using the 'bdes' command. See the
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bottom of 'info bmap' for an explanation of the difference between
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your 'working' and your 'true' bmap.
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.s1
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When sectors owned by you get transferred to your friend's bmap, they
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will be replaced with the first letter of your country name
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(capitalized), the only exception being harbors and bridges which will
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always be transmitted. Also, if you want to send them the location of
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owned sectors having a certain designation you can specify that using
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the optional <des> argument. For example if your country name was
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"TheScum" and you typed:
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.EX "sharebmap Fodderland #1 j"
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then all of your bmap would be added to Fodderland's bmap, with sectors
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owned by you replaced with 'T', except for your '=', 'h', and 'j'
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sectors which would be sent as is.
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.s1
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Note that the destination bmap will only be changed if in that
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location there was a '?', a '.', a ' ', or the first letter
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of your country name (capitalized). Thus, the receiving country will
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not lose any information in this exchange.
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.s1
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Note that the sharebmap command only changes your 'working' bmap and
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so you can delete sharebmap information from your bmap by typing:
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.EX "bmap <SECTS> revert"
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See 'info bmap' for more details.
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.s1
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.SA "bdes, bmap, Communication, Maps"
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