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3 total messages Started by rec... Fred Langa Wed, 03 Jan 1996 00:00

#2464

Author: rec... Fred Langa
Date: Wed, 03 Jan 1996 00:00

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Since others are posting suggestions, how about this---if you shoot the door to a 
hostage cell but have to leave before picking them up, how about letting the 
hostages start to work their way through the mine instead of just staying put? 
You'd have to use the map to find them, of course, but it would add an element 
of human-like uncertainty to things, instead of just having them stand in one spot 
flapping their arms forever...

8-)

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Re: ambulatory hostages

#2465

Author: p... Per Goetterup
Date: Wed, 03 Jan 1996 00:00

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In article <4ccjsa$f...@linet02.li.net>, rec...@li.net (Fred Langa) wrote:
>Since others are posting suggestions, how about this---if you shoot the door to a 
>hostage cell but have to leave before picking them up, how about letting the 
>hostages start to work their way through the mine instead of just staying put? 
>You'd have to use the map to find them, of course, but it would add an element 
>of human-like uncertainty to things, instead of just having them stand in one spot 
>flapping their arms forever...

Yeah, but if you, say on level 1 of D2, manage to blow the hostage door 
but not the gates in the rest of the room, the hostages has to walk 
across a long lava-pit to get to the rest of the mine - not all that 
easy! :)

Besides, where should they go? 

- Towards the reactor? - How should they know where it is?
- Towards you? - Same problem!

Nah, I vote for letting them stay put, perhaps with a bit more animation 
so they react when they see you and start waving as they do now. Before 
that they should sit and sulk or something like that... :)

Oh, and how is it that the hostages are clearly visible even in a dark 
room? - Glow-in-the-dark spacesuits? - No, they should only be visible 
by reflected light from the lights in the mine, the flares or your 
headlights.

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Re: ambulatory hostages

#2466

Author: rec... Fred Langa
Date: Fri, 05 Jan 1996 00:00

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"Besides, where should they go? "

Towards the exit, natch. 8-) The hostages must be human miners left 
behind---surely they'd know the way out. 

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Fred Langa, Editorial Director
CMP Personal Computing Group
Windows Magazine, Home PC, NetGuide
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