Jeff, at 14:43 on Sun, Feb 12 1995, you wrote to Bill Grimsley ...

BG> I promise you that you haven't missed much, except perhaps 
BG> the perfect illustration of what is possibly the world's 
BG> most illogical brain.

JG> That's one of the reasons I don't read them.

Well, you haven't missed much then.

JG> BTW, did I mention that GalCiv is big? It looks like it 
JG> might be a very hard game at the top levels.

Don't these things take hundreds of hours to complete?  A local friend is
right into games and simulations, and he's just bought the SE version of
Wing Commander - fucking thing comes on _3_ CD-ROMs!

JG> I read some of one of the authors comments about the AI 
JG> they've built in. They've had to disallow it from doing 
JG> certain things that the human player can do just to give us 
JG> brain damaged humans a chance. This will change if someone 
JG> can show them (the authors) that it disadvantages the AI 
JG> opponents too much.

Can this AI function be reenabled by the user though?

JG> For christ sake! I just got my ass kicked on the second 
JG> level (easy). At this level the AI is classed as 
JG> 'brain-dead'. Says a lot for me doesn't it? :-)

Yes it does, but I'm far too polite to labour the point.  |-)

Regards, Bill

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