Re: DSII Vehicle creation page

>From: Colin P <colin@imhotep.org.uk>
>I seem to recall a system by which automated machinery is given a
>flowchart 'program' to follow depending on its function.  This would
>severely restrict the actions available to an 'automated' tank.  But it
>would make for silly situations - a 'feature' of your flowchart causes
>it to fire at an enemy that is out of range, whilst a 2 man team pops
the 
>top with an anti-tank weapon. :)
>
>If I remember correctly it actually got printed in a 'White Dwarf' some
>time ago.

Yes, that was about 8 years ago.  Lots of fun.	It was used for their
robots 
and basically gave a broad description of what the robot would do.  For
a 
"programming language" it was really interesting.  Being a hard core 
programmer myself, I found it a lot of fun to play with.  It even
resolved 
easily - however you non-computer expert or non-puzzle enjoying gamer
would 
really dislike having to BUILD new systems.

I created one for patrolling that worked reasonably well.

--Peter

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