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- From: sutin@phaeton.UCSC.EDU (Brian Sutin)
- Newsgroups: rec.games.pbm
- Subject: Re: Galaxy Results Format
- Date: 23 Dec 1992 01:36:56 GMT
- Organization: Lick Observatory UCSC
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- Message-ID: <1h8froINNnkr@darkstar.UCSC.EDU>
- References: <1h781gINNil8@fbi-news.Informatik.Uni-Dortmund.DE> <1h81mcINNmcu@darkstar.UCSC.EDU> <1992Dec23.004143.7348@netcom.com>
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- Keywords: galaxy
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- In article <1992Dec23.004143.7348@netcom.com> cinnibar@netcom.com (Jeff Wood) writes:
- >In article <1h81mcINNmcu@darkstar.UCSC.EDU> sutin@ra.UCSC.EDU (Brian Sutin) writes:
- >>I have a parser which chews down the complete output, and then decides
- >>where all my cargo ships go, makes maps, designs ships, assigns production,
- >>etc. It is 700 lines of c code. I used the advanced lexical analyzer
- >>named "scanf," which is perfectly suited for the task. Give it a try.
-
- >I'm sorry....but are you sure you're playing a Galaxy game? Sounds like you
- >just sent in a request to put your name in the hat for a game, then set up a
- >mailer daemon to run this program, which apparently does all your moves for you
- > [...]
- >Jeff Wood
-
- A simple computer program could undoubtedly play better than many galaxy
- players. If a player cannot play better than an AI program written by
- a rank amateur like myself, then he/she will not survive long in a galaxy
- game anyway.
-
- My program, however, is not very smart -- I have to correct all sorts of
- amazing things it comes up with, and it does not know what to do in case of
- an attack, nor does it understand any sort of strategy. What it does is
- take care of the tactics and leave the strategy to me.
-
- As soon as I understand the game well enough to write a program to play it
- for me, then you are right -- there is no longer any reason to continue
- playing. I don't think this will happen anytime soon.
-
- Brian Sutin sutin@lick.ucsc.edu
- Lick Observatory, UCSC Santa Cruz, CA 95064
- Fred: "May I rescue you?"
- Ginger: "No, thank you. I prefer being in distress."
-