Re: Galaxy Results Format

From: hankins@cs.swarthmore.edu (Luke Hankins)

Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 18:39:55 +0000

cinnibar@netcom.com (Jeff Wood) writes:

>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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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

Referenced By

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