Clarification about PO cheat

KarlXII: Posts: 262; Joined: Sat Aug 20, 2005 10:17 pm; Location: Stockholm

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Post by KarlXII » Mon Jul 10, 2006 6:41 am

I read an article with Ralph and there he says regarding the computer.

The PO ‘Cheats’ in only 2 ways.

A) It understands the strength of all the unseen units around it. It uses this ONLY to understand whether to advance or retreat.

B) It has a slight advantage in combat and supply. If you want to play 100% even, you actually need to set the PO to a human advantage of + 2.

Point B could be remedied by adjusting it as it says. But what does A mean ? Does the computer know every disposition of my troops including the strengths and thereby I am the only one playing with fog-of-war ? Or is it just the adjacent hexes it knows of ? Or is it that it doesn´t know of my dispositions but it knows of my strength to determine wether to push an offensive or retreat ? I hope it is the latter. That is more acceptable.

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Post by dobeln » Mon Jul 10, 2006 9:22 am

My guess is he means it knows all unit positions and strenghts for the purpose of the flanking avoidance code, but that's just a guess. Got a link to the interview btw? 

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Post by KarlXII » Mon Jul 10, 2006 9:28 am

Here it is (found under TOAOW III reviews):
http://www.armchairgeneral.com/articles ... 649&page=1

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Post by ralphtricky » Mon Jul 10, 2006 4:35 pm

ORIGINAL: karlxii
A) It understands the strength of all the unseen units around it. It uses this ONLY to understand whether to advance or retreat.

Point B could be remedied by adjusting it as it says. But what does A mean ? Does the computer know every disposition of my troops including the strengths and thereby I am the only one playing with fog-of-war ? Or is it just the adjacent hexes it knows of ? Or is it that it doesn´t know of my dispositions but it knows of my strength to determine wether to push an offensive or retreat ? I hope it is the latter. That is more acceptable.

It used this only to determine whether to advance or retreat. I've looked over the code again, and I'm not really sure that it does that. I am pretty sure that it only looks at the visible units like we do.

Ralph Trickey
TOAW IV Programmer
Blog: http://operationalwarfare.com
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