🚀 go-pugleaf

RetroBBS NetNews Server

Inspired by RockSolid Light RIP Retro Guy

Article View: alt.games.warcraft
Article #23

Re: does warcraft AI cheat?

#23
From: mk... Mike Kent
Date: Tue, 11 Jul 1995 00:00
26 lines
1703 bytes
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
Technical Details
Message-ID: <3tua6j$627@gryphon.phoenix.net>
Path: mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!unknown!not-for-mail
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>

Show Full Headers
Complete Article Headers
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