Re: [OFFICIAL] Some FT background stuff (guidelines for writers) - LONG POST!

John Leary <realjtl@sj.bigger.net>
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>      As far as communications is concerned, I feel that the courier
> ship exists for a reason, communication.   So I prefer the non-FTL
> communication background of 'Traveller".

    I agree.  It makes an interesting setting especially for a campaign.

>      Drone fighters can be trusted to always make the same choice
> given the (basically) same conditions.   As a result the drones
> win round one big time, and become progressively less effective
> as the countermeasures come into play.   The human fighters 
> would soon acquire a special fighter that carried ECM or 
> Weasel sets to force the 'incorrect' choice in the drones 
> program.   

    The drone fighters could easily be programmed to avoid this.
The simple way would to have a number of choices for any given
situation and randomly pick between them.  A different method would
be to give the drone a history so that if it used the same tactic
a couple of time, it would do something different this time.  I
think that this would not be a problem.

Enjoy,
Tom Granvold				<thomas.granvold@eng.sun.com>