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Part of Skycar Factory description is never printed #7

Open eriktorbjorn opened 4 years ago

eriktorbjorn commented 4 years ago

This piece of code in SKYCAR-FACTORY-F:

        <COND (<AND <NOT <EQUAL? ,SYEAR 2041>>
                <L? ,STIME 480>
                <G? ,STIME 990>>
               <SCORE 109> ;"1 point"
               <TELL
". The parking lot is empty; there must currently be only one shift per day">)
              (T
               <TELL
". Judging by the number of cars in the workers' lot, and the general level
of activity, the plant is running at ">
               <COND (<EQUAL? ,SYEAR 2041>
                  <TELL "nearly full">)
                 (<EQUAL? ,SYEAR 2051>
                  <SCORE 109> ;"1 point"
                  <TELL "well above half of">)
                 (<EQUAL? ,SYEAR 2061>
                  <SCORE 110> ;"2 points"
                  <TELL "less than half of">)
                 (T
                  <SCORE 111> ;"3 points"
                  <TELL "a fraction of">)>
               <TELL " capacity">)>

Since STIME cannot be both less than 480 (8:00 am) and greater than 990 (4:30 pm) at the same time, the first condition will never be true so you will never see that there is only one shift per day.

Note, however, that enabling it would contradict the InvisiClues which (according to the transcribed version I've read) says that recording in the Skycar Factory gets you 1 point in 2051, 2 points in 2061 and 3 points in 2071.

But maybe that makes sense? You only see that there is no shift. Since that doesn't change over the years, you're not awarded extra points for recording it again. Only a daytime recording would reveal more information.