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- From: gl8f@fermi.clas.Virginia.EDU (Greg Lindahl)
- Subject: Re: Galaxy: A modified battle algorithm
- Message-ID: <1993Jan2.193607.28116@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
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- Organization: Department of Astronomy, University of Virginia
- References: <1993Jan01.210955.9160@donau.et.tudelft.nl>
- Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 19:36:07 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan01.210955.9160@donau.et.tudelft.nl> andre@duteinq.et.tudelft.nl (Andre Verwey) writes:
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- >If the hard limit on the number of battlerounds if for example set on
- >10, a fight can end undecided.
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- Indeed, it would probably be possible to produce so many small ships
- that a battle would never end, and the game could stalemate. You have
- to watch out for gotchas like this.
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