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From: gnat@kauri.vuw.ac.nz (Nathan Torkington)
Subject: Intelligence Assumptions
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How much intelligence is it safe to assume?  Most games that I've
played have been reluctant to automatically open doors for you, and I
have just followed suit.  But given the (convincing) argument that the
character you control should be responding to your commands as if you
had issued them via voice to a sensible human being (eg "waldo -- go
north"), any sensible human being would try the door to the north
before saying "I can't go north from here, Dave."

Do we:
 --> open doors?
 --> try all the keys we have in locked doors?
 --> refuse to do things that would get us killed ("jump off ledge")?

Nat
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