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Re: Occupant Combat, Redux


>  * Mention the current range of Xconq numbers (that it uses shorts and is
>thus capped at 32767). This can be inferred from looking at the paragraph
>on dice specs, but could be made explicit.

Perhaps also mention that 9999, 999 and 99 (rather than 32767) are used to
represent an "unlimited" large number in many games.

>  * Put emphasis on the sentence that tells what the default values are
>assumed to be when they are not explicitly stated in the documentation.

The value -1 has a special meaning in some tables. For example, if
fire-hit-chance is set to -1 for a unit that can fire, the standard
hit-chance table is used instead also for fire actions.

>  * Give an example of an atom versus a list containing an atom versus a
>list containing multiple atoms.
>
>  Are there others?
>
>  Thanks,
>    Eric




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