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- From: hankins@cs.swarthmore.edu (Luke Hankins)
- Subject: Re: Galaxy Results Format
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- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 18:39:55 GMT
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- cinnibar@netcom.com (Jeff Wood) writes:
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- >Oh, to those with flames, I have no objection to parsers and such to break down
- >the output to something you like better, I myself have one for hypercard to
- >produce star maps. It's when you start designing AI's that you're losing the
- >spirit of the game.
-
- Hum.. IMHO, things like this aren't AI in any sense of the word.
- The programmer is simply taking all the boring, repetitous algorithms in his
- head and putting them in code. Try attacking this person and see how long
- they last if they leave things to their scripts. Automation is fine in
- peacetime, but war still needs a human.
-
- -luke
-
- (This is mostly from my experiences in Empire...)
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- Luke Hankins hankins@cs.swarthmore.edu |"Le coeur a ses raisons que la raison
- for(MyAge=0;!Dead;EnjoyLife); | ne connait point" -Blaise Pascal
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