This is true... if you're able to cheat/script trivially it is a serious flaw of the game design.
Stuff like playerkilling and questing forces the player to pay a little more attention, and running should not always be a simple matter.
Even so, I like the idea of developing a really fantastic smart client and trying to beat other coded clients in a good MMORPG/MUD world (the difference vanishes with APIs/open standards) more than the idea of making a killer quakebot.
I'd go as far as to say it was one of the most interesting evolutions of Robowars/Corewar et al =)
RobotWar was an excellent game... I've seen several progressions of the idea including a few that used java as the control language for the bots but I don't think any of them worked well enough/had a wide enough user base to become recognised.
Shame really cos it was a really sound geek alternative to snail fighting.
That seems to be a perfectly sensible way to do it... the difference between that and battlebots would be the analog of the difference between the WWF and pitfighting?
Big corporations have a bit more power than some though, and apparently more reluctance to use it responsibly as well. Picture the (off-topic) scene: Bill Gates IV sitting in front of his flowering windows-petunia in his back garden, finishes the changes to some code and starts it running. The output starts to whizz past and he freezes the screen to check it's working ok:- "A rose by any other name would smell as swees" Copyrighted, Microsoft (March 2120), OK "A rose by any other name would smell as sweet" Error - couldn't copyright (#52 already taken) "A rose by any other name would smell as sweeu" Copyrighted, Microsoft (March 2120), OK etc etc
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Some questions to ask ALICE which have funny answers:
:)
"What is your favourite band?"
"a/s/l?"
"wanna cyber?"
try it
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This is true... if you're able to cheat/script trivially it is a serious flaw of the game design.
Stuff like playerkilling and questing forces the player to pay a little more attention, and running should not always be a simple matter.
Even so, I like the idea of developing a really fantastic smart client and trying to beat other coded clients in a good MMORPG/MUD world (the difference vanishes with APIs/open standards) more than the idea of making a killer quakebot.
I'd go as far as to say it was one of the most interesting evolutions of Robowars/Corewar et al =)
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Remember the hawaiian shirt in nethack? using IE is like wearing that.
I think the point of the whole exercise is to fleece people who they see as gormless.
:)
There's an IE5 user... he obviously doesn't have too much discretion,
there's an AOL user, he obviously can't think for himself, let's charge him 20% more
oh oh... there's a li... no, even I'm not prepared to whore that much
RobotWar was an excellent game... I've seen several progressions of the idea including a few that used java as the control language for the bots but I don't think any of them worked well enough/had a wide enough user base to become recognised.
Shame really cos it was a really sound geek alternative to snail fighting.
I resent the association of animal rights and snack bread! =)
That seems to be a perfectly sensible way to do it... the difference between that and battlebots would be the analog of the difference between the WWF and pitfighting?
DoS? or a link from ./ on the front page?
One problem with this would be that Microsoft could then be perceived to have a kind of monopoly.
Am I imagining it or were the cast of Scooby Doo in a secret level in Wolf3D?
Why would governments want our votes when they can have MegaCorps money?
votes are just bits of ink... money buys beer and boys.
everybody should have lawyers who can write hilarious legal letters :)
why not?
they seem to have a strong corporate policy of embarassing themselves at the minute.
how about if Microsoft and Generic Megacorps die like bitches?
I wanna see a MUD where your bandwidth is suitably respected...
"come here dwarf lord, I am going to sk00l you with my 5 megabytes per second firebolt!"
Big corporations have a bit more power than some though, and apparently more reluctance to use it responsibly as well. Picture the (off-topic) scene: Bill Gates IV sitting in front of his flowering windows-petunia in his back garden, finishes the changes to some code and starts it running. The output starts to whizz past and he freezes the screen to check it's working ok:- "A rose by any other name would smell as swees" Copyrighted, Microsoft (March 2120), OK "A rose by any other name would smell as sweet" Error - couldn't copyright (#52 already taken) "A rose by any other name would smell as sweeu" Copyrighted, Microsoft (March 2120), OK etc etc
I however will perform sexual acts for karma.
so, like, who is held responsible when people start making genetically modified soldiers and terrorists?
So? it's just a bigger lego brick. Why don't they work on something _useful_ like a decent followup to the Pixies?
Haven't genes been patented yet?
they're only tiny little things anyway, aren't they?
and how do I go about patenting my precise sequence of genes? is it like the copyrighting process? do I need to post me to myself recorded delivery?
and what about nature vs. nurture? can I patent the process of growing old and learning as well?
I don't know. Sometimes I just don't understand Microsoft supporters. It's like they just don't have a clue.
The Borg get a bad press... they're just trying to innovate