Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!altitude!pascal From: pascal@CAM.ORG (Pascal Gosselin) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.games Subject: Re: Risk Message-ID: <1990Nov23.015311.21741@CAM.ORG> Date: 23 Nov 90 01:53:11 GMT References: <0B030501.YC3U5S@udwarf.tymnet.com> <2280@key.COM> Organization: None Lines: 40 jsp@key.COM (James Preston) writes: >Regarding why Parker Bros. might not be too interested in marketing the >existing Mac version of Risk: Owning a Mac and no PC's, I normally pay no >attention to what exists in the PC world, but I was thumbing through a >catalog from Egghead yesterday and couldn't help notice that there is a >Parker Bros. authorized version of Risk for the PC. >Since there seem to be a lot of folks here who play this game, I have a >question. Is it just me, or are all the variations of the computer opponents >just plain DUMB? I have played many times, against many different numbers >and combinations of computer opponents, and I have almost never had any >trouble beating them. I mean, it's almost embarrassingly easily. None of >the computer opponents seem to have the slightest concept of even the most >basic of strategies for this game, such as that continents are important to >hold for yourself and important to take away from your opponents. At first, >I thought it might be because I always go for South America first. But no, >I can almost always quickly take and hold North America, or Europe, or even >Asia and the stupid computer opponents don't really fight me for them! So >I've given up playing; there's just no challenge to it. >--James Preston A friend of mine bought the PC version of Risk and said that it is 100 times more powerful that the Mac software. Mac Risk uses blind luck (conservative, cahotic, warrior). It is unfortunate since I love Risk, but also find it embarrassingly easy to win at Mac Risk. If you play two players or more with the computer playing the other opponents, the only strategy involves nuking the computer at the right time to get his Risk cards !!!!! -- +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Pascal Gosselin | Internet: P.Gosselin@CAM.ORG Applelink: CDA0585 | | Gest-Mac Inc. Apple VAR | Voice (514) 767-4444 Fax (514) 767-7337 | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+