🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <5gcngq$f6s$1...@mark.ucdavis.edu>, awku...@ucdavis.edu says...
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>In article <Pine.OSF.3.96.97031...@curly.cc.utexas.edu>, 
Brian Barnes <bba...@uts.cc.utexas.edu> wrote:
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>[other Red Alert bugs snipped]
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>>     3. Player can no longer ally with the computer.
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>        The ability to ally with the computer should be left in, IMHO.  I 
>play RA quite often over a LAN in 3 and 4-player games and we've been 
>experimenting with new game types, such as human-computer/human-human and 
>human-computer/human-computer, etc.  In such cases allying with the 
>computer is a fundamental part of our games; it adds some measure of spice 
>and variety.  We've also taken to playing 8-way free-for-alls with 4 humans 
>and 4 computers, modifying the rules.ini so that the comps don't ally with 
>each other.  I don't see why Westwood would punish us to please the 
>weak-willed who can't refrain from cheating.
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>Alex Kubiak
>awku...@ucdavis.edu

I agree, I've always wondered why Westwood never put in a game conditions 
screen where you could start a game with ally disable/enable, fixed starting 
point or random if u want to play a coop game, etc. Why is it all or nothing? 
Oh well...
-boomer