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- RiskPlayers is a bunch of additional computer player modules for
- the famous Risk.app (by Mike Ferris).
-
- While the players are still not strong enough to pose as ferocious
- enemies they do enhance the variety of different types of computer
- animated players. Still, a slightly experienced player will not
- have too much trouble winning.
-
- The status of the implemented players is experimental, though stable
- enough to not crash too often (alpha tested by Donald A. Yacktman
- <don@misckit.com>, thanks). Current implementation does not even
- reflect the described strategy, but surprise might add to the fun.
-
- Haudruf: I inherited the basic implementation together with my version
- of Risk.app I think. Sources are included, hope that is ok with the
- original author. 'Haudruf' is kind of german, meaning something like
- 'going berserk'. That pretty much describes the implemented strategy.
-
- Coop: in a way is intended to be cooperative, whatever that means.
- This is not following the mathematical definition of cooperative as
- used in game theory.
-
- Block: A refinement of Coop, currently my strongest player. Together
- with Strat (by Royce Howland royce@splunge.uucp, kakwa!atlantis!splunge!royce)
- the two opponents make interesting games.
-
- Software comes as is, GPL copyleft should apply where no other
- copyright holds. I have no intention to refine the players or invent
- new strategies but Don convinced me to share the results anyway. It
- was fun for a couple of days to hack along. If you use these as basis
- for further development I would sure like to know.
-
- Winter 1995, Juergen Sell js@icem.de
-
-
- [Note that the source code is inside each .cp wrapper. Since the
- sources are so short, it probably doesn't matter much if you keep
- them around. If you're really pressed for disk space, you can
- delete the source code and thin the binaries down... -Don Yacktman]
-