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- behind the cosmic curtain with Bill Eberle
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Alien Specific Information “Bot Memory” Factors
- Anti-Matter - no special requirements
- Brat - no special requirements
- Calculator - no special requirements
- Clone - all other aliens have public knowledge of cloned pods
- Dictator - no special requirements
- Dork - no special requirements
- Empath - no special requirements
- Filch - all players will have public knowledge of pods stolen by the Filch
- 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
- Healer - no special requirements
- Laser - no special requirements
- Loser - no special requirements
- Machine - no special requirements
- Macron - no special requirements
- Martian - no special requirements
- Mind - has time and event sensitive private knowledge of all pods belonging to other aliens which it has been shown during the game
- Mite - no special requirements
- Mutant - no special requirements
- Oracle - no special requirements
- Pacifist - no special requirements
- Parasite - no special requirements
- Philanthropist - has private time sensitive knowledge of pods it has given to other aliens
- Reincarnator - no special requirements
- Sapient - no special requirements
- 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
- Trader - both main players have private knowledge of the pods which have been traded to the other alien
- Tripler - no special requirements
- Vacuum - no special requirements
- Virus - no special requirements
- 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
- Vulch - players losing artifacts to Pod Salvage have private knowledge of artifact(s) which the Vulch collects from Salvage
- Warpish - no special requirements
- Warrior - no special requirements
- Will - no special requirements
- 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.
 Our 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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