Tonto! v1.0 - a new brain!

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Okay, here's a new brain for you all: Tonto! It's a reworking of my
original autopilot, one of the first nonstandard brains. This one goes on to
finish off some of the features I had begun to implement (such as repairing
pillboxes) and adds several more (better neutral base snatching, base spiking,
ally following) which set it (hopefully) on a level with the latest Indy,
Maxwell and Dumbot.

It's not loopproof, but it shouldn't crash your mac. If you play against it
one on one, you may not notice much difference - however, with an allied
computer player, Tonto will be much more effective. He also makes a good
sidekick for you, hence his name, Tonto! You can get more description by
downloading him and checking out the readme file.

Also - some people have complained about not knowing which players are
brains and which are humans. I propose that the Bolo community decide on a
universal polling message - a message that a human could send to a player, and
if it's a 'bot, get a response back from containting brain names and versions.
I've already begun to put this code into Tonto!, but I can't think of what the
standard message should be. Any idea?

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Milo (Michael) Sharp [email protected]
Academic Computing [email protected]
University of Alaska, Fairbanks -or- @acad2.alaska.edu

Here it is - Tonto! v1.0, successor to Milo's Autopilot.