Re: Galaxy Results Format

From: sutin@phaeton.UCSC.EDU (Brian Sutin)

Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 01:36:56 +0000

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."

References

Galaxy Results Format
markhof@ls12r.informatik.uni-dortmund.de (Ingolf Markhof)
Tue, 22 Dec 1992 14:17:20 +0000
Re: Galaxy Results Format
sutin@ra.UCSC.EDU (Brian Sutin)
Tue, 22 Dec 1992 21:35:08 +0000
Re: Galaxy Results Format
cinnibar@netcom.com (Jeff Wood)
Wed, 23 Dec 1992 00:41:43 +0000