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<LI><em>From</em>: Jeff Kesselman &lt;<A HREF="mailto:jeffk#tenetwork,com">jeffk#tenetwork,com</A>&gt;</LI>
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At 07:52 PM 8/18/97 PST8PDT, JCL wrote:
&gt;In &lt;<A HREF="msg00604.html">3.0.2.32.19970815094745.00890a10#mail,tenetwork.com</A>&gt;, on 08/15/97 
&gt;   at 10:49 AM, Jeff Kesselman &lt;jeffk#tenetwork,com&gt; said:
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&gt;&gt;At 04:48 PM 8/14/97 PST8PDT, you wrote:
&gt;&gt;&gt;clawrenc#cup,hp.com wrote:
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&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt; I have severe allergic reactions to tick based systems.
&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt; Characteristically I prefer the "as fast as the system will let you,"
&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt; model. The idea that I'll deliberately program a system so that a
&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt; human can wait on a computer seems treasonous.
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&gt;&gt;Problem with thsi in the real world is it favors LPBs (low ping
&gt;&gt;bastards) over those witha  lsower connection, and bots over humans.
&gt;
&gt;Yes, it favours the faster connections.  My general answer to this is
&gt;that the answer is to design the game system to not rely on user
&gt;speed.  As I tend to favour what many here call "chess-like" game

Hmm interesting.  Without regualrizing speed making the system immune to
speed as a factor wopuld seem to me to be quite a challenge. In any real
time system I've seen reaction-time is fairly critical.

&gt;Minor supporting notes: I don't intend for a repetitive action to
&gt;*ever* sustainably be profitable.  While a little bit more difficlt I

Not sure thsi helps.  Have yo useen the Quake aim-bot?  It doesnt generate
reptitive actions, what it does is lock and fire yourt weaponms for yo
uwith astounding reaction time and accuracy...  you still "pilot" the player.

&gt;The bot comment I count as an express failure in game design.  Any
&gt;game which can be profitably automated via a bot is a flawed game
&gt;design.  I am not interested in producing games where humans are
&gt;merely less effective bots.

See the above. Doesnt have to be either/or. Tehre are plenty exampels of
"cyborg" approaches that are quite successful ina variety of games.

JK
Jeff Kesselman
Snr. Game Integration Engineer
TEN -- The Total Entertainment Network -- www.ten.net

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<LI><strong><A NAME="00588" HREF="msg00588.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] C&amp;C and Event Rescheduling</A></strong>, 
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