🚀 go-pugleaf

curt...@aol.com (CurtAdams) wrote in message news:<20020308030020...@mb-cg.aol.com>...
> card...@helpmejebus.com writes:
> >"sb" <sb...@my-deja.com> wrote in message
>  news:99ca96f2.0203060315.65bab461@posting.google.com...
> >

> 
> They didn't just "drop" multiplayer tactical. The current interface only
> copes with one player at a time.  Frog City would have had to write a 
> multiplayer interface.  Given the extreme limitations of multiplayer
> tactical, they took a pass.  
>
All there had to be done was to exclude AI from the opposing side.
Then substitute in the opponents move. Actually multiplayer input is
more simple than making an AI opponent.

As I remember it, this was just one of several instances where Frog
City had to cut a toe in order to meet the deadline. And there's no
money in going back to do the tweeks. Perhaps *IF* it becomes
freeware/abandonware some day.
 
> Curt Adams (curt...@aol.com)
> "It is better to be wrong than to be vague" - Freeman Dyson

Great, I won't feel so bad if I'm wrong about the above then :)

sb