Re: [pbmserv] Robots update

[Clarence Risher <sparr@trifocus.net>]

Cameron Browne wrote:
> > In what way are they more dangerous?  Assuming I havent missed 
> > something in the rules, this is a rather old game and the outcome is 
> > deterministic.  8 moves is no more dangerous than 1 since you can plot 
> > exactly what the robots are going to do after each move.
>
>
> You're quite correct. I was factoring in human error: it's increasingly 
> likely to make a mistake the more moves you queue up.

Unless you use a client to play that can extrapolate the game for you. 
I cant name one offhand, but I know they exist for other games, and I 
know some of them are extendable to include new games very easily.  This 
gives an extremely unfair advantage to people who do, as they can make 8 
moves at a time all the time.  Also, how are you scoring the "stand 
still forever" move?  If you stick with this scoring system then it 
might be sets of 8 "stand still for one move" moves, or continue 
accruing past 8 (giving even more extremely large scores).