Biometric tower maybe TOO interesting

[Saturn-99]

Testers got stuck on biometric tower for a long time, maybe this red herring is a little too red

[pahp]

Haha, oops. Maybe we make some indication that the tower will only open for someone with John Titor's biometric signature, and maybe you should try to find some other way into the lab...

[spacehobo]

This seems like it's easily fixed with better descriptions and responses. It's not uncommon for even Infocom games to tell the player "You'll need to find another way, because this won't work."

[pahp]

April had a great idea to have the biometric tower give some error messages about how it will only open for John Titor.

[Saturn-99]

April had a great idea to have the biometric tower give some error messages about how it will only open for John Titor.

Lol, I don't think I was the one that came up with the idea but I'll take credit if you want to give it to me!

[spacehobo]

Looks like #193 implemented that. I do notice that if I try to examine the eyepiece it doesn't know that word. Perhaps we should copy the rejection text if you do anything to the other components of the tower, through cheap_scenery?

[pahp]

Whatever you think is best for an MVP; we can always refine later if necessary. Thanks!

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Looks like #193 https://github.com/UMDLARS/one_night_in_sf/pull/193 implemented that. I do notice that if I try to examine the eyepiece it doesn't know that word. Perhaps we should copy the rejection text if you do anything to the other components of the tower, through cheap_scenery?

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[Saturn-99]

Looks like #193 implemented that. I do notice that if I try to examine the eyepiece it doesn't know that word. Perhaps we should copy the rejection text if you do anything to the other components of the tower, through cheap_scenery?

Can cheap scenery only handle two possible names/aliases? Could we not added eyepiece to that list? (If not could we just create a second cheap scenery object that is identical in description except it has eyepiece as a name?)

[pahp]

I don't know the answer to this question. @spacehobo ?

[spacehobo]

Yeah, you usually handle this by defining the response (description string, handler function, whatever) externally, and then just having like

OUR_RESPONSE_VAR = "It wibbles like a thing possessed.";
object Wibble "Wibbling Room"
with
 description "You're in a wibble station, where you see a foo (with the bar extension) and a baz with a quux, all wibbling away furiously.",
 cheap_scenery
  'foo' 'bar' OUR_RESPONSE_VAR
  'baz' 'quux' OUR_RESPONSE_VAR,
! ...

(or you can define like [our_response_fn; ... ] and refer to that)

[Saturn-99]

202 fixed eyepiece issue

[pahp]

April tried to make it less of a red herring (more obviously not the right path), so we will close for now and reopen if needed.