What's wrong with current BBGs?

[JonO]

Exactly!

A perfect example from Far Horizons that one of my players just encountered involved the TRANSFER order. which syntax is:

Code:

TRANSFER amount item source, destination

The player mistakenly comma separated every field, i.e.,

Code:

TRANSFER amount, item, source, destination

Why the arbitrary requirement that only source/destination be separated? Pretty ridiculous.

My guess is that the programmer was combining those two fields into a single variable that was passed to a subroutine or maybe a stored proc and thought the player should be kind enough to provide the separator.

The way I am handling transfers in RW is the player drags cargoes from a representation of his hold to a representation of his loading dock. Then he selects from a list of available recipients, and clicks on a commit button. He can still screw up, of course, but it won't be because the game mechanics tripped him up.