From: von@cory.Berkeley.EDU (Steve Von Worley)
Subject: Scimmage Results:  Target Practice vs. the World
Organization: University of California, at Berkeley
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1992 08:23:31 GMT

At approximately midnight PDT, all hell broke lose on a small INL server
deep in the bowels of the computer science department at UCBerkeley; Target
Practice took on the World for the first time.

The pre-tourney sparring looked good; TP racked up kill after kill
as it tossed beautiful torp streams into its surprised and bewildered
human foes.  You could sense the intimidation building on the opposing
team as doubts cascaded through their minds... "have we met our match?",
"damn that robot toasted me like marshmallows in a forest fire"...
Then the game began, and everything changed.

The initial bombing runs were pretty well even, with a slight advantage
to the Feds (humans), who for a short while had a stockpile of armies
on Earth.  The Feds brought out a base; this was a problem.  Since TP
does not understand bases yet, it did not know that anyone with kills
who had docked at the starbase might be carrying.  Thus, it did not ogg
them or protect against them.  I requested that the base change out, but
then I realized it would only prolong the scrimmage, which would end
in genocide, so I let it stay in.

Quickly, TP's front line planets were taken. Soon afterm the core fringes
were destroyed and then finally, there was an LPS on Rom...  at the 18 
minute mark a Fed dropped the last two armies and finished.

Overall, I was happy with the results.  TP had a few good oggs, although
it bombed and defended marginally.  Observing a robot, in action against
clueful human opponents, highlights it's weaknesses beautifully.

Here is the conquer file (TP was logged in as guest):

Conquer! Fri Oct  9 00:33:57 1992

  The galaxy has been conquered by the Federation:
  The Federation:
     InspectorPlasma (F9) with 3 planets and 69 armies.
      Count SMACKula (Fb) with 3 planets and 66 armies.
              JESTER (Fd) with 2 planets and 32 armies.
           ZZnew guy (Fe) with 1 planets and 60 armies.
        Sarah Conner (Fc) with 1 planets and 32 armies.
               Shark (Fa) with 0 planets and 41 armies.
              Scorn! (Ff) with 0 planets and 2 armies.
  The Romulans:
               guest (R6) with 2 planets and 32 armies.
               guest (R3) with 0 planets and 77 armies.
               guest (R7) with 0 planets and 46 armies.
               guest (R1) with 0 planets and 43 armies.
               guest (R5) with 0 planets and 36 armies.
               guest (R2) with 1 planets and 1 armies.
               guest (R4) with 0 planets and 28 armies.

And a list of the people who participated:

	InspectorPlasma		psycho bomber
	Count SMACKula		Videodrome
	JESTER			JESTER
	ZZnew guy		ZZnew guy
	Sarah Conner		Duck Dodgers
	Shark			Shark
	Scorn!			Scorn!
	Rhudabaga Boy		Non-Stop!!

It was a fairly harsh first matchup!  I was actually surprised that it
lasted as long as it did (longer than some INL games :).  Maybe I'll
look for clueless opponents next time! ;)

Thanks to all of you for helping me!  I'll post information about the
next scrimmage when I think I have improved Target Practice enough to
make a difference!

Sandia - creator of Target Practice
-- 
Steve Von Worley
von@cory.berkeley.edu
Computer Science Gradual Student
University of California at Berzerkly 
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