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Article #23Re: does warcraft AI cheat?
From: mk... Mike Kent
Date: Tue, 11 Jul 1995 00:00
Date: Tue, 11 Jul 1995 00:00
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Night Stalker (gcl0@neptune) wrote: : John C. Lonningdal (lon...@hiMolde.no) wrote: : : pis...@imap2.asu.edu wrote: : : : : I had a situation where there were only two bridges to my side of the map : : : : and I had them both barracaded such that nothing could walk accross them. : : : : Somehow, however, invisible units from the computer repeatedly kept appearing : : : : inside my town..... Yes, the AI cheats..... : : Hmmm... is this really possible? I'm sure I have done the same thing and : : they didn't pass my men unless there was an opening... : Warcraft AI does NOT cheat via game mechanics. It only "cheats" by : having a great advantage in either number of units or gold. Maybe there's : a magic user in a unexplored square on your side of the map conjuring : these units up or if they somehow got throught your barracade. I finished : both races and have not encountered something like this. : GL I have seen it where the computer teleports human units into your orc town. Evidently the computer gets a spell as the humans that the human players don't -- - Mike "ekiM" Kent San Jacinto College Central mk...@phoenix.net
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From: mk...@phoenix.phoenix.net (Mike Kent) Subject: Re: does warcraft AI cheat? Date: 1995/07/11 Message-ID: <3tua6j$627@gryphon.phoenix.net> X-Deja-AN: 105993308 references: <3rvfdq$2do@muss.CIS.McMaster.CA> <3s3sin$b97@nntp.igs.net> <3t1phh$br9@news.asu.edu> <3tom48$rha@ulke.hiMolde.no> <3tqdlk$10mh@fidoii.cc.lehigh.edu> organization: Phoenix Data Systems newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.strategic,alt.games.warcraft MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit