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Should "party" type games that allow the host to add computer players let the host make up their own names for "bots", or should they be used to impose the authors' own eccentric naming conventions for their AI players with set defaults?
Leftley wrote:
Should "party" type games that allow the host to add computer players let the host make up their own names for "bots", or should they be used to impose the authors' own eccentric naming conventions for their AI players with set defaults?

I think the names should be predetermined by the game based on the author's naming conventions, but resettable by the host.

Lummox JR
In response to Lummox JR
That is, if the host has subscribed to the game....
In response to Xooxer
I can't take it anymore. GET ON MSN, XOOXER!
Oh, either is swell, I think.

If people can name their own AND act on them with verbs, that's where the real fun begins, my friend.

create "our last hope for a treaty between Zaire and Angola
OK.
kill our-
Zilal kills our last hope for a treaty between Zaire and Angola!

Z