Tom, I think you misunderstand my idea. Let me clarify.
There is a game called Diplomacy, originally put out by the Avalon Hill company that was a strategic-level WWI game. Players take the part of one of the seven major powers in Europe circa 1901. Turns consist of three phases, diplomacy, during which players negotiate alliances, peace treaties, etc, orders writing, during which each player writes a set of orgers for his or her units and the resolution phase, where all the orders are compared and resolved. Each player has no advance knowledge of the opponents' orders, and must construct his or her orders based on an assessment of what the others are going to do, based on tactical position and clues gained through diplomacy. As such, the strategic problem is somewhat more complex, since the game is a game of in-plete information. What I proposed for STFC was a similar concept. You'd eliminate the preliminary diplomatic phase of course, but the player(s) would use the normal input methods to plot orders. Other players computer or human, would do the same. After all moves are plotted, the game would execute the orders, describe the results and give messages to the human player(s). There is no need for multithreading, simply process all turns without knowledge of the next turn's movements. The order of oper'ns might look like: 1. Get input for all human player turns. 2. Create computer player turns, based on present positions, not including knowledge about the human players' moves. 3. Process weapon firing. Give messages describing results. 4. Move all ships according to their orders, subject to changes from weapons damage. 5. Lather, rinse, repeat until end of game. Note that the only change from the way things happen now is that moves are calculated before the computer paayers know what the human player(s) are doing. Christopher Bartlett _______________________________________________ Gamers mailing list .. Gamers@audyssey.org To unsubscribe send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can visit http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org to make any subscription changes via the web.
