Handling TREASURE objects in TADS3

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I’m trying to figure out the right information and methods for handling objects that are considered to be treasures. In the game RUINS, I found the following information:

class Treasure: Thing
culturalValue=5

Can someone tell me how they are used. I didn’t have much luck searching the TADS3 user manuals.

RonG

2

That’s not one of TADS’s standard classes, so you won’t find any information in TADS documentation. The code

class Treasure: Thing ... ; means that this class is a new class based on Thing and is created right there. From a quick look it seems, that culturalValue is used for scoring and photographedInSitu mainly for variation of messages. Action a check phases are specialized for dobjFor Take, PutIn and Photograph. Apart from that its an ordinary Thing.

3

What you probably want is the Achievement class. This provides various ways of keeping score.

–JA