I agree. Getting kills is easy even if you are a lousy dogfighter. Good dogfighting is important for many reasons, but generating kills so that you can take planets is not one of them. Good dogfighting is useful for planet defense and escorting. -----Original Message----- From: Tom Holub [mailto:doosh at inl.org] Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2001 11:18 AM To: vanilla-list at us.netrek.org Subject: Re: [Vanilla List] organized, intelligent 'bots 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 _______________________________________________ vanilla-list mailing list vanilla-list at us.netrek.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/vanilla-list ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This message is intended only for the personal and confidential use of the designated recipient(s) named above. If you are not the intended recipient of this message you are hereby notified that any review, dissemination, distribution or copying of this message is strictly prohibited. This communication is for information purposes only and should not be regarded as an offer to sell or as a solicitation of an offer to buy any financial product, an official confirmation of any transaction, or as an official statement of Lehman Brothers. Email transmission cannot be guaranteed to be secure or error-free. Therefore, we do not represent that this information is complete or accurate and it should not be relied upon as such. All information is subject to change without notice.