Markus Armbruster
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TREATIES has issues:
* Treaties can cover attack, assault, paradrop, board, lboard, fire,
build (s|p|l|n) and enlist, but not bomb, launch, torpedo and
enlistment centers.
* Usability is very poor. While a treaty is in effect, every player
action that violates a treaty condition triggers a prompt like this:
This action is in contravention of treaty #0 (with Curmudgeon)
Do you wish to go ahead anyway? [yn]
If you decline, the action is not executed. If you accept, it is.
In both cases, your decision is reported in the news.
You cannot get rid of these prompts until the treaty expires.
* Virtually nobody uses them.
* Virtually unused code is buggy code. There is at least one race
condition: multifire() reads the firing sector, ship or land unit
before the treaty prompt, and writes it back after, triggering a
generation oops. Any updates made by other threads while trechk()
waits for input are wiped out, triggering a seqno mismatch oops.
* The treaty prompts could confuse smart clients that aren't prepared
for them. WinACE isn't, but is reported to work anyway at least
common usage. Ron Koenderink (the WinACE maintainer) suspects there
could be a few situations where it will fail.
This feature is not earning its keep. Remove it. Drop command
treaty, consider treaty, offer treaty, xdump treaty, reject treaties.
Output of accept changed, obviously.
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@pond.sub.org>
29 lines
1 KiB
Perl
29 lines
1 KiB
Perl
.TH Command CONSIDER
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.NA consider "Accept, decline or postpone consideration of a loan"
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.LV Expert
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.SY "consider loan <loan #> accept|decline|postpone"
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This command allows you to consider accepting a loan
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offered by another country.
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.s1
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The program will list the various terms of the loan
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under consideration and ask for your decision
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as to whether to accept the terms, decline them,
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or postpone making a decision.
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.s1
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If you accept a loan,
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the money is immediately credited to your account
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and the time period of the loan starts.
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If at the time of your acceptance,
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the lender does not have sufficient funds the size of the loan
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will be diminished to fit the lender's cash on hand.
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.s1
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Loan offers are withdrawn if not accepted within a number
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of days equal to the proposed loan's duration.
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.s1
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Warning: When the terms of a loan are printed out,
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take note of the due date;
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if you do not pay by the due date the interest will double
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and you will be subject to \*Qcollection\*U,
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(see \*Qinfo collect\*U).
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.s1
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.SA "collect, ledger, offer, Loans"
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