Re: TP and the blind

On Mon, 2007-07-30 at 14:51 -0700, Zachary Kline wrote:
> I wouldn't know about this, but would welcome a text-based or audio
> client if possible.  
> I'd be glad to help out however I can.  

Everyone has to start somewhere. I like to think we are very tolerant of
beginner programmers and I'm always happy to help. The more programmers
we have the less work I have to do!

Python is probably a very good language to start with, it has a load of
documentation and probably is not too bad when screen read.

> On a somewhat related note, may I inquier as to the status of AI for
> this project?  

Currently we have two very basic AI for the Minisec game. 

One is the AI inbuilt into Nash's galaxie client
http://git.thousandparsec.net/gitweb/gitweb.cgi?p=galaxie.git;a=summary 

The other is tpsai-py. 
http://git.thousandparsec.net/gitweb/gitweb.cgi?p=tpsai-py.git;a=summary
I have being doing a bit of work on so that it can test functionality in
the servers. It beats the galaxie AI most of the time, but that is
mainly because it doesn't crash as much :) Also been good in uncovering
bugs in various servers.

Both definitely require a huge amount more work (and probably a bit more
interesting rulesets) before they are similar to MOO.

Tim Ansell