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3.19. Carrying capacity |
The containers and supporters created so far have been boundlessly capacious: or rather, though we seldom notice the difference, have had a maximum carrying capacity of 100 items. This is clearly unrealistic for a small purse or a modest mantelpiece. We can impose upper limits with sentences like so:
The carrying capacity of the jewelled purse is 2.
The bijou mantelpiece has carrying capacity 3.
Attempts by the player to overfill, or overload, will now be rebuffed with a message such as "There is no room on the mantelpiece".
The player is not a container or a supporter, but nevertheless does have a carrying capacity: this is interpreted to mean the maximum number of items which can be carried at once.
The carrying capacity of the player is 4.
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