[Courageous]

You can consider it a flame or a learning experience, the choice is yours. I'd prefer the latter, frankly. I have a long term career working in the field of planning, scheduling, and simulation. This stuff is HARD, particularly if the AIs are deprived of information. One should not sweep programmers under the rug of being "lazy" if they put cheats into their game A.I. It's simply not correct.

I should like to point out in passing that you'd be less subject to being "flamed" if you were less free and easy dealing out insults to people you don't know working in a problem domain that you haven't worked in.

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