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David Lamb <dal...@cs.queensu.ca> looked up from reading the entrails of
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>On 20/04/2013 10:10 AM, Xocyll wrote:
>> Bethesda never considered the interactions, where the inheritance
>> routine would conflict with you being a wanted criminal.
>>
>> It's like every script was written as though it happened in complete
>> isolation from everything else - only that's not how worlds work, it's
>> how laboratory's work.
>
>"Feature interactions" is a really hard problem. It was a significant 
>research field back in the 1990s just for telephone switching systems. 
>It's easy enough to pick four or five things and make sure they don't 
>interfere with each other, but the number of interactions goes up at 
>least as the square of the number of features -- and sometimes you get 
>more interactions than that, when feature A causes feature B to do 
>something that interferes with feature C.

The thing is they did account for this basic stuff in previous chapters
of the series, that's what's so annoying.

If they'd never done it it would be a bit annoying, but them stopping
doing this stuff is very annoying indeed.

>The specific things you mention sound particularly egregious, though.

Yeah, basic stuff, it's like they're not even trying anymore.

It's either a side effect of them dumbing things down for the consoles,
or they're assuming that fans are going to buy it no matter what so they
no longer need to tie everything up neatly.

Xocyll
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