From: "Jeffrey Nowakowski" <jeffno at ccs.neu.edu> > "Daniel Damouth" <ddamout1 at san.rr.com> wrote: > > > > Sophisticated methods of communicating, such as beeplite, are considered > > cheating/borgish. > > You can't use "borgish" as a criteria of what to put/not put into a > robot team. By it's very nature the robot is "borgish". As long as > the robot isn't getting any special help from the server it isn't > cheating. There are plenty of ways to cheat that don't involve the server. A big reason for having "blessed" clients is to prevent the kind of cheating that Mark's bots will do. If a robot is doing things that are illegal for a human to do, such as communicating through sockets with other clients, it is cheating. Dan Damouth