in reply to Re: Perl Game, suggestions.
in thread Perl Tanks

i personally don't think it should be turn-based ...

I agree. It should be time based. Something on the order of 

while (TwoOrMoreAlive()) {
   for my $robot (@ArrayOfRobots) {
       eval {
           local $SIG{ALRM}=sub{ die };
           alarm(1);
           $robot->Process();
           alarm(0);
       };
   }
}

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This would give each robot a fixed amount of time to do something. Somehow, we would want to parallelize the process (using a smaller time increment than 1 sec....). But by doing it time-based gives advantages to people who write very fast, efficient code: which should be a bonus.

I have gobs of ideas, just not enough time to write them all down ... more later.

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