Change 4157

Originally Posted : Fri Jan 08 19:52:23 2010
Posted by : Traveller
Title : Ask

I won't go into detail about the genesis of this change, other
than to say hopefully it will be useful for newbies.

If you ask an NPC about something, the ask function will now
check whether you used an indefinite article to begin your
question. I.e.

ask ardana about the morthaur / ask ardana about an morthaur /
ask ardana about a morthaur (yes i realise some of those don't
work grammatically)

If it has knowledge of the subject (morthaur) it will return it.

Advantage? It's more intuitive, especially for new players.

Disadvantage? If an NPC knew about "the bork" it may notknow about
it any longer. Let me know if you remember any questions you've
asked NPCs (kyldiss springs to mind) where you had to preface the
question with "a", "an" or "the" because they will have to be fixed.

Cheers.