On Tue, Dec 11, 2001 at 07:18:03AM -0800, Daniel Damouth wrote: > From: "Jeffrey Nowakowski" <jeffno at ccs.neu.edu> > > 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. > 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. You do realize that what you are suggesting, is that if a person opens an IRC window to speak to his other team mates (IRC uses TCP/IP), that this team is now "cheating" under your definition of the term. Heck, all of ICQ / MSN / AIM use "sockets" to communicate. Is it illegal for a human player to make use of any of these mechanisms of communication? You know... perhaps if the Robots communicated using audio only, you would consider it legal? I.e. if the robots were all attached to separate microphone/speaker pairs, and the microphone/speakers were kept in a single room. Or, as somebody else suggested, would you demand that they used the English language to communicate with each other? If they *did* use the English language, and voice recognition software, would it be illegal for them to speak at upwards of 600 words per minute? This is pure insanity, Daniel. You are trying to bind my hands together on this one. At least Tom doesn't think it's cheating. He just thinks it won't work, or that it isn't worth the effort. :-) mark -- mark at mielke.cc/markm at ncf.ca/markm at nortelnetworks.com __________________________ . . _ ._ . . .__ . . ._. .__ . . . .__ | Neighbourhood Coder |\/| |_| |_| |/ |_ |\/| | |_ | |/ |_ | | | | | | \ | \ |__ . | | .|. |__ |__ | \ |__ | Ottawa, Ontario, Canada One ring to rule them all, one ring to find them, one ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them... http://mark.mielke.cc/