Re: Dom2 file formats
There's a pro and a con to generally known file formats:
pro:
Some folks could start working on "external", nation-specific AIs.
(I still wonder if you could write one in F77 ...)
con:
Some folks would start working on cheats and exploits to ruin multiplayer games ...
I would like to know the file formats very much - sadly the other game, which would have been much more suited for such a task, Stars!, died without the devs giving the specs to the public.
Security by obscurity isn't the way to go, but that's only IMHO.
Maybe our devs here could drop a line how they feel about this issue ??
[ May 13, 2004, 01:43: Message edited by: Arralen ]
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As for AI the most effective work around to this problem so far is to simply use an American instead, they tend to put up a bit more of a fight than your average Artificial Idiot.
... James McGuigan on rec.games.computer.stars somewhen back in 1998 ...
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