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mfischer5@aol.com (MFischer5) wrote:
[...]
>FWIW: The ground is supporter enterable scenery, and the royal throne is
>supporter transparent enterable static concealed.  <whew>
>Any suggestions?  Why is the best-scoring object not the object with the best
>score?!

I'm no expert, of course, but it seems..."suspicious" to me
that the throne is concealed and the ground is not.  I
probably understand the motivations (having recently coded
something similar, myself), but it seems like the sort of
thing that might cause problems.

In fact, I was recently dredging through the library to
find a problem not too different from this.

Ah.  Let's see, if you take a look at the lines in the
middle of ParserM.H (about forty lines into Adjudicate(),
not surprisingly), you'll see a loooong condition that
appears to directly overlook anything with the concealed
Attribute.

Now, how to *solve* the problem, without breaking a dozen
other things, I don't quite know, yet...

[...]
