Message 10973 : Robots (Re: Kienna) (Manwe)
Written on Sat Feb 17 12:13:47 1996

1) We want a player behind a character. Mume already fails in many roleplay 
   attempts without needing this one.

2) Using a program to save/help other players is in the same spirit than 
   multiplaying. The player in trouble knows in advance the reaction that he
   can expect from your char.

3) Using a program for your own benefit (like hunting TPs) is in the same 
   spirit than abusing a loophole in Mume code. For instance, nobody would 
   deliberately hunt slithering snakes at legend level (1xp) but a robot could
   and then level after 1000000 of them.

Robots won't be tolerated in Mume. True it might become hard to detect one 
(after all Kasparov is tied with BigBlue...) but I wouldn't push your luck if 
I were you; you are not the only programmer around :-)

--Manwe.