[Xpilot-hacks] XPilot 5.0.0 (XPilot++) Development

[Ben Armstrong]

On Mon, Jan 19, 2004 at 01:33:58PM -0800, Paul Forman wrote:
> I remember a "Predator"-themed team map, with "predators" being given 
> lasers
>  and cloaks, while "marines" were given a wide and cluster mines.  Fun 
> map, it
> used to run in Norway around 1996 (1997?)...
> 
> I think it was "Aliens Vs. Predator", but I haven't seen a copy in many 
> years, and
> I never saw the hacked server.  I'm sure it was a one-off thing.

Bingo.  Hit the nail on the head.  Armed with that info and Google Groups:

http://groups.google.ca/groups?q=predators+xpilot&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&scoring=r&selm=4iu3mg%2462t%40oban.cc.ic.ac.uk&rnum=1

"Predator vs. Marines" would be the name, and since the post was made early 
in 1996, the map was at least around in '96.  (I started playing in '97.)

If you read the whole thread, there are some interesting ideas in there for
balancing teams.  I'm wondering if a similar algorithm (summed up as
"balancing team joins towards some ideal") might improve "normal" team games
(e.g. blood's)

Ben
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