From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 16398 invoked by alias); 12 Nov 2003 16:48:58 -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 16382 invoked from network); 12 Nov 2003 16:48:56 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO garm.central.cmich.local) (141.209.15.48) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 12 Nov 2003 16:48:56 -0000 Received: from leon.phy.cmich.edu ([141.209.165.20]) by egate1.central.cmich.local with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.0.2195.6713); Wed, 12 Nov 2003 11:48:54 -0500 Received: from localhost (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by leon.phy.cmich.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5C27C7001B for ; Wed, 12 Nov 2003 11:48:52 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2003 16:55:00 -0000 From: Eric McDonald To: xconq7@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: unfair starting positions In-Reply-To: <20031112130011.GA1817@leonardo> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-OriginalArrivalTime: 12 Nov 2003 16:48:54.0120 (UTC) FILETIME=[DB702E80:01C3A93C] X-SW-Source: 2003/txt/msg00652.txt.bz2 On Thu, 13 Nov 2003, Peter Garrone wrote: > > the remnants of the last 2 guys into oblivion was particularly tiresome, > > the inevitable outcome was known long before. > > There is always the ai command. Turn your side over to the ai, get a > drink, and watch. Unfortunately, the AI is rather bad at launching coordinated, continuous assaults over any significant distance. Perhaps better path-finding will be the first step in remedying this. Sometimes when I watch the AI's duke things out, the physicist in me starts thinking about statistical mechanics and thermodynamics.... Think long term diffusive processes between two bodies of roughly equal local pressure along their region of contact. But I'm sure if you have enough to drink, things will start to seem entertaining. And if you really have enough to drink, you might even get to watch the last 100 turns of the endgame when you crawl back into your chair the next morning.... Eric