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From: d90-mwd@sm.luth.se (Michael Westlund)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.games
Subject: Re: harpoon
Message-ID: <1570@tau.sm.luth.se>
Date: 1 May 91 22:03:06 GMT
References: <1991Apr26.214429.16515@midway.uchicago.edu>
Organization: University of Lulea, Sweden
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hui@landau.uchicago.edu (Hui Dong) writes:


>    Harpoon is a great game, but would it be better to allow two person
>play against each other over appletalk? I feel it maybe easier to program
>than to write a good computer strategy.

I agree! After seeing the computer making the same mistakes again and again,
one wishes that there was somebody else "at the other end" who at least could
give you SOME competition...

In that matter, I prefer Strategic Conquest - despite the unrealistic
simulation!

Even the computer can be hard to beat sometimes...

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