February 23rd, 2003, 03:19 AM
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Re: SE5, Tell Aaron what\'s on your Wish List
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This game is a great game. Unfortunately, it is a bit too big. It takes quite a long time to play a game with a large group. Even if everyone is able to play a turn a day (which in my experience is seldom), games can easily Last 6 months.
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This is the point of a PBEM game.
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*IF* (yes it is a big if) the internal calls to the AI routines were structured properly, they could (at the request of a race setting) call an external DLL that is provided by the programming skills of the player!
The first call to the DLL could pass a data structure that contained the game state as known by the AI.
Subsequent calls to the DLL would be function calls that ask specific questions about what to do.
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This is already handled through text files, which is much better than a dll, because anyone can edit text files. Dll's require some more knowledge of programming code.
[ February 23, 2003, 01:20: Message edited by: Imperator Fyron ] |