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Starcraft "bots"?

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From: Everett Hickey
Date: Thu, 07 Mar 2002 20:21
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I've heard that there are "bots" that are able to take on the role of an
opponent in starcraft, acting like another copy of the game on the network.

I've been playing around with the packet structure used in connecting to
battlenet, and am considering making a sort of "battle manager" that turns
the game from a realistic battlefield scenario into something more like a
piece of military software - helping you organize your men, etc.  Anyone
know if work like this has already been done?

note: due to the... err... nature.. of this product, I'm not likely to
distribute a working copy of it (if I do it) unless it's set to announce
what it is in-game.  This is meant more as a project on battlefield
management and low-level AI, and using it competitively wouldn't be
particularly fair (unless the other person was doing the same).
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From: "Everett Hickey" <lit...@ev1.net>
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Subject: Starcraft "bots"?
Date: Thu, 7 Mar 2002 14:21:46 -0600
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