On Wed, Dec 12, 2001 at 04:11:13AM -0500, Mark Mielke wrote: > On Tue, Dec 11, 2001 at 10:13:49PM -0800, Tom Holub wrote: > > On Tue, Dec 11, 2001 at 07:33:32PM -0500, Mark Mielke wrote: > > > Tom thinks it isn't possible, or that it won't be effective. > > Wrong. I think you're an idiot. It is certainly possible to create a > > netrek robot that could beat the best human team. It's a very difficult > > problem, and not one anyone's going to solve by concentrating on tactical > > improvements. (It's not one you personally are going to solve by any > > methods). > > Tactical improvements are the butter between the bread. > > If the robot can't fight, it can't get a kill. If it can't get a kill, > it can't take a planet. The robot code written in 1986 is good enough to get kills. -Tom