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Alien Specific Information “Bot Memory” Factors

  1. Anti-Matter - no special requirements
  2. Brat - no special requirements
  3. Calculator - no special requirements
  4. Clone - all other aliens have public knowledge of cloned pods
  5. Dictator - no special requirements
  6. Dork - no special requirements
  7. Empath - no special requirements
  8. Filch - all players will have public knowledge of pods stolen by the Filch
  9. Ghost - ideally there should not be any public knowledge or bot memory of the number of foreign colonies, pods, alliance ship count, Warp ship count, etc. for the Ghost
  10. Healer - no special requirements
  11. Laser - no special requirements
  12. Loser - no special requirements
  13. Machine - no special requirements
  14. Macron - no special requirements
  15. Martian - no special requirements
  16. Mind - has time and event sensitive private knowledge of all pods belonging to other aliens which it has been shown during the game
  17. Mite - no special requirements
  18. Mutant - no special requirements
  19. Oracle - no special requirements
  20. Pacifist - no special requirements
  21. Parasite - no special requirements
  22. Philanthropist - has private time sensitive knowledge of pods it has given to other aliens
  23. Reincarnator - no special requirements
  24. Sapient - no special requirements
  25. Sorcerer - no special requirements; it might be nice if the Sorcerer could see a list of the pods it had played in encounters to help it avoid patterns of play which would help other aliens guess what it might play
  26. Trader - both main players have private knowledge of the pods which have been traded to the other alien
  27. Tripler - no special requirements
  28. Vacuum - no special requirements
  29. Virus - no special requirements
  30. Void - no special requirements; it might be nice if the Void could call up a list of ships it had removed from the game, e.g. to enhance its ability to tease other players at opportune moments
  31. Vulch - players losing artifacts to Pod Salvage have private knowledge of artifact(s) which the Vulch collects from Salvage
  32. Warpish - no special requirements
  33. Warrior - no special requirements
  34. Will - no special requirements
  35. Zombie - no special requirements

 

Peter and I will appreciate all comments, corrections, and additions to our working list of game information factors which our bot memory should support.

Cosmic Encounter® MindOur plan is to first create and perfect bot memory for the Mind and then release that as a new version of the online game. Then we will add bot memory for the Trader and Philanthropist; and, finally add bot memory for all alien bots.

And, then . . . we're pretty sure that we'll be finding opportunities to create some new “online only aliens” as we create this new information dimension for Cosmic Encounter® Online.

 

Thanks. — Bill Eberle (for Cosmic)

 

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