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<blockquote data-quote="FrogReaver" data-source="post: 7794385" data-attributes="member: 6795602"><p>I'll answer your question, but please go back and answer the real issue I brought up in the post of mine you just quoted. </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>To answer your question: Yes, there are pros and cons to everything. Rarely is something universally better than something else.</p><p></p><p>The benfits I see in that approach are: it makes the game much more readable after the fact, it keeps the action focused in scene using more in game language.</p><p></p><p>Now the cons I see are: It's not always easy to put into words overly general approaches to a goal. "I draw upon all my life experiences" is an approach but it's an approach that took a 14+ page thread for anyone to suggest this as the proper way to ask that question in your style. So while there may exist a simple way to phrase such an action in your game in your preferred style, it's not something that necessarily is going to be easy to come up with on the spot. (That's where the magic words criticism comes in. When I as a player convey something in the best language I can come up with on the spot but since I didn't phrase it exactly as you prefer then it's not possible).</p><p></p><p>So I have one additional question for you on top of the, "isn't this implicit question the same dang thing". What cons do you see to your approach? What pros do you see to my approach?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="FrogReaver, post: 7794385, member: 6795602"] I'll answer your question, but please go back and answer the real issue I brought up in the post of mine you just quoted. To answer your question: Yes, there are pros and cons to everything. Rarely is something universally better than something else. The benfits I see in that approach are: it makes the game much more readable after the fact, it keeps the action focused in scene using more in game language. Now the cons I see are: It's not always easy to put into words overly general approaches to a goal. "I draw upon all my life experiences" is an approach but it's an approach that took a 14+ page thread for anyone to suggest this as the proper way to ask that question in your style. So while there may exist a simple way to phrase such an action in your game in your preferred style, it's not something that necessarily is going to be easy to come up with on the spot. (That's where the magic words criticism comes in. When I as a player convey something in the best language I can come up with on the spot but since I didn't phrase it exactly as you prefer then it's not possible). So I have one additional question for you on top of the, "isn't this implicit question the same dang thing". What cons do you see to your approach? What pros do you see to my approach? [/QUOTE]
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