Accessing a console would give you some info, including
all-you-ever-wanted-to-know about all the droid models on and below your
current droid's level.

Did the info regarding sensors have any influence in the game? I always
wondered about this. I never noticed any droid behaviour hinting at
this though. They all had eyes in the back of their heads it seemed.

-- 
Etienne von Wettingfeld

Etienne von Wettingfeld wrote:

> Did the info regarding sensors have any influence in the game?

Not in a major way, certainly not enough to effect game play. I suppose 
that the theory was that a droid with infra-red capabilities could detect 
you, as a droid or the influence device, even if you were out of sight or 
around a corner or something. Of course, when you take over a droid that 
has more than spectral capabilities you don't get any additional ways to 
find droids other than just looking at your screeen.

It's an interesting question and I'm amazed that I never thought about it 
before this. :)

-- 
Golan Klinger
Dark is the suede that mows like a harvest.

On 2005-11-22, Golan Klinger <no@sp.am> wrote:

>> Did the info regarding sensors have any influence in the game?
>
> Not in a major way, certainly not enough to effect game play. I suppose 
> that the theory was that a droid with infra-red capabilities could detect 
> you, as a droid or the influence device, even if you were out of sight or 
> around a corner or something. Of course, when you take over a droid that 
> has more than spectral capabilities you don't get any additional ways to 
> find droids other than just looking at your screeen.

Yeah, but none of this was in the game! :-)
Maybe it was an idea that Andrew didn't implement. The whole console was
pretty useless. Only the deck maps had some use, but it wasn't like you
could get lost on any deck.

> It's an interesting question and I'm amazed that I never thought about it 
> before this. :)

Then you also never wondered how a magnet can pick up another while
the gravity of the enitre planet is pulling it down. :-p

-- 
Etienne von Wettingfeld

Etienne von Wettingfeld wrote:

> Then you also never wondered how a magnet can pick up another while
> the gravity of the enitre planet is pulling it down. :-p

Of course I thought about that. The answer is love, right? ;)

-- 
Golan Klinger
Dark is the suede that mows like a harvest.

It occurred to me that Golan Klinger wrote in comp.sys.cbm:
> Etienne von Wettingfeld wrote:
>
>> Then you also never wondered how a magnet can pick up another while
>> the gravity of the enitre planet is pulling it down. :-p
>
> Of course I thought about that. The answer is love, right? ;)

Yes. In fact,  it proves the age-old rule:

Opposites attract.

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In article <slrndo75b7.phg.etienne@noddy.wettingfeld.nl>,
Etienne von Wettingfeld  <etienne@xs4none.nl.invalid> wrote:
>
>Did the info regarding sensors have any influence in the game?

  ISTR that when you take control of some driods you can see droids
that are around corners.  With others, you need line-of-sight.

-- 
David Evans
Faculty of Computer Science                     dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca
Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada  http://bbcr.uwaterloo.ca/~dfevans/

On 2005-11-23, David Evans <dfevans@bcr10.uwaterloo.ca> wrote:

>>Did the info regarding sensors have any influence in the game?
>
>   ISTR that when you take control of some driods you can see droids
> that are around corners.  With others, you need line-of-sight.

I never noticed this, but I'll look for it next time I play.

-- 
Etienne von Wettingfeld