electrohome@watcgl.UUCP (electrohome) (08/06/85)
To start off a discussion on board games, I find that my major problem with
them is finding another person who is willing to spend time to learn to play
the game. Sometimes a 20+ page rulebook can turn a person right off! Thus, I
often have to resort to playing solitaire. The question that I bring up for
discussion is:
What kinds of games do people like to play solitaire? What methods do people
use to play non-solitaire games solitaire?
To open it up, I basically have four types of games:
1) purely solitaire games: Ambush and B-52(?) queen of the skies
I like playing B-52 (do I have that number correct?) because you
can set it up and complete a game in as little as 45 minutes. I haven't
played Ambush yet.
2) purely multi-player games: Diplomacy, etc.
Diplomacy is nice because you can get around the need for opponents by
playing by mail or e-mail. However, this is not true of most games.
3) Multi-player games that you can play against yourself: many war games
and some sports games (esp. baseball)
This is interesting but rather limiting. I did run a full 50 game
schedule of Sher-co baseball (with all 26 teams!) back when I was in
high school, though.
4) Multi-player games that you can program a computer opponent for.
This is the area of most interest for me. I'm currently converting the
C code to Sail to basic so I can run the AI move generator on my micro.
Games should be rather non-complex for this to be possible. It also
assumes that you can figure out the best strategy, also.
Let's here from others! What do you do when you can't find an opponent and
are itching to play a game?
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Carlo Sgro
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