Tonto

From nntp.Stanford.EDU!headwall.Stanford.EDU!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!sdd.hp.com!caen!batcomputer!news.reed.edu!usenet.ee.pdx.edu!cs.uoregon.edu!news.uoregon.edu!netnews.nwnet.net!raven.alaska.edu!aurora.alaska.edu Wed Jul 21 19:33:57 PDT 1993 Article: 2573 of alt.netgames.bolo Newsgroups: alt.netgames.bolo Path: nntp.Stanford.EDU!headwall.Stanford.EDU!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!sdd.hp.com!caen!batcomputer!news.reed.edu!usenet.ee.pdx.edu!cs.uoregon.edu!news.uoregon.edu!netnews.nwnet.net!raven.alaska.edu!aurora.alaska.edu !fxmcs From: fxmcs@aurora.alaska.edu Subject: Tonto! v1.0 - a new brain! Message-ID: <1993Jul21.165537.1@aurora.alaska.edu> Lines: 309 Sender: news@raven.alaska.edu (USENET News System) Nntp-Posting-Host: aurora.alaska.edu Organization: University of Alaska Fairbanks Date: Thu, 22 Jul 1993 00:55:37 GMT Okay, here's a new brain for you all: Tonto! It's a reworking of my original autopilot, one of the first nonstandard brains. This one goes on to finish off some of the features I had begun to implement (such as repairing pillboxes) and adds several more (better neutral base snatching, base spiking, ally following) which set it (hopefully) on a level with the latest Indy, Maxwell and Dumbot. It's not loopproof, but it shouldn't crash your mac. If you play against it one on one, you may not notice much difference - however, with an allied computer player, Tonto will be much more effective. He also makes a good sidekick for you, hence his name, Tonto! You can get more description by downloading him and checking out the readme file. Also - some people have complained about not knowing which players are brains and which are humans. I propose that the Bolo community decide on a universal polling message - a message that a human could send to a player, and if it's a 'bot, get a response back from containting brain names and versions. I've already begun to put this code into Tonto!, but I can't think of what the standard message should be. Any idea? --- Milo (Michael) Sharp fxmcs@aurora.alaska.edu Academic Computing fsmcs1@aurora.alaska.edu University of Alaska, Fairbanks -or- @acad2.alaska.edu Here it is - Tonto! v1.0, successor to Milo's Autopilot.