From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 31445 invoked by alias); 12 Sep 2004 23:07:36 -0000 Mailing-List: contact xconq7-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: xconq7-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 31425 invoked from network); 12 Sep 2004 23:07:33 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO sccrmhc12.comcast.net) (204.127.202.56) by sourceware.org with SMTP; 12 Sep 2004 23:07:33 -0000 Received: from [192.168.181.128] (c-67-172-156-222.client.comcast.net[67.172.156.222]) by comcast.net (sccrmhc12) with ESMTP id <2004091223073301200ikct7e>; Sun, 12 Sep 2004 23:07:33 +0000 Message-ID: <4144D6B4.2030604@phy.cmich.edu> Date: Sun, 12 Sep 2004 23:14:00 -0000 From: Eric McDonald User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.7.1 (Windows/20040626) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: xconq7 Subject: Re: New Windows Installer References: <4144CDB3.9030107@phy.cmich.edu> In-Reply-To: <4144CDB3.9030107@phy.cmich.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2004/txt/msg01159.txt.bz2 Eric McDonald wrote: > There have been a number of improvements: > (1) The AI should now do a better job at researching advances. (Thanks > to Lincoln Peters for taking the first step in this direction.) More can > still be done on this subject, but if you want to see what the AI is > capable of now, then play the Advances game. You may find that at least > one AI-controlled side has War Chariots (powerful units) by turn 22 or > 23, and that several will likely have Elephants (very powerful units) by > turn 30. I just found a serious bug in the advance picking code. I would suggest that Opal not be played against AI opponents until I fix it. So much for all the testing I did.... Eric