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Re: Contest 2 Update:

• Posted by Don <eunexus at yahoo.com> Nov 30, 2004
• 574 views

> > Also if it was set up without the attack going first I could very easily
> > program a bot to simply move to any safe surrounding area if I could be
> > attacked by more than one unit this turn.
> 
> The problem with this is that the SAME THING can be done in this new
> situation... I can simply program a bot to avoid getting near (that is,
> within one/two unit(s) of) an enemy bot. We're back to...
> 
> > ...[it's] boring watching units constantly avoiding
> > one another until a draw happens...

Its not quite the same now as before.  Now you have a valid chance to
kill an enemy unit without having to guess which direction (if any)
the unit may be moving to.  You can still make "chicken" bots of course,
it just makes them more easy to constrain them as it extends out the
radius... IMO the change allows for more actual fighting.


Don Phillips - aka Graebel
     National Instruments
     mailto: eunexus @ yahoo.com