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From: stanger@otago.ac.nz (Nigel Stanger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.games
Subject: Re: RoboSport
Message-ID: <1991May30.115329.446@otago.ac.nz>
Date: 30 May 91 05:27:33 GMT
References: <1991May29.172448.17903@hubcap.clemson.edu>
Organization: University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand
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In article <1991May29.172448.17903@hubcap.clemson.edu>, jcocon@hubcap.clemson.edu (james c oconnor) writes:
> What about having a robot repair shop?  Maybe you could have a rifle
> robot that destroys a missle robot take the parts back to the repair
> shop and get an upgrade?  Broken robots could go to the repair shop
> to get fixed up (so long as they can get there under their own steam).

Hey, I like this. Something that a friend of mine would like to
see is some sort of simple conditional processing, i.e. "scan and
fire for 5 seconds. If I am shot at during this period, run away
to x,y instead." I'm not sure how you would fit that into the
visual programming paradigm though.

> I'd like to have smarter opposition (computer brain).  I've played 
> a few survival games and a capture the flag game in (standard/campaign)
> mode and haven't had any trouble beating the computer.  I've lost maybe
> a 2 out of 15 games.

Try this then: set yourself up a custom game in the suburbs. You
term should have maybe four robots. The computer should have at
least 6 and maybe eight. Give all your robots wimpy weapons, give
the computer tougher weapons. That should make life much more
interesting... ;-)

-- 
See ya
                                Nigel.
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