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Aluminum uses one character less and therefore it's more efficient to type, takes up less space on the page, saves ink, saves one byte of memory, etc. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...ies/tongue.gif

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If it was melting, I very much doubt it was pure aluminum - Melting point of 660 C/1220 F.

If your stove really does get that hot, might I suggest something safer to cook your food with than a blast furnace?

Most likely it was tin - Melting point of 231 C/449 F.

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Almost everything made out of Al is actually an alloy, because pure Al doesn't have good properties for making stuff. Alloying it affects its melting point. I read this on Wikipedia, so it must be true. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/wink.gif (Notice how I cleverly avoided the spelling controversy, and saved lots of ink and bytes.)

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"...Because pure A.I. doesn't have good properties..."

So the Alloy would be mixing AI with knowledge of player locations, map triggers/waypoints, preassembled build plans, foreknowledge of the tech tree...

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'...Foreknowledge of the tech tree...'...'...Player knowledge of the tech tree...'

Hmm, doesn't really look that much like cheating. Would depend on how it is handled.

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Al not AI http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...ies/tongue.gif As in Aluminum not artificial intelligence http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...ies/tongue.gif

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Randallw: i find it strange that you think it is strange. Don't you know americans enough by now to not think it is strange for us to do things differently?