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Re:More on Dota 2 by gpm on Thursday August 17, 2017 @08:23AM (#15036049)
No. Because the bot can choose the next action at the end of the 200ms, with all the information available then, not at the start.

Bandwidth limits are typically of the "You can only do 1 action (send 1 packet) 200ms since you sent the last packet", not "You can only send 300 packets per minute".

Re:More on Dota 2 by hobofan on Thursday August 17, 2017 @08:39AM (#15036170)
How about "You have to choose an action at the end of 200ms, with the information at the start"?

At the end of the day we can be nitpicky and speculate all day long, but we won't know for sure what they achieved/didn't achieve unless they publish something more concrete than a blog post that is intentionally written in accessible language, which has the side effect eroding some of the more specific measures that were taken to ensure a level playing field.

Re:More on Dota 2 by gpm on Thursday August 17, 2017 @09:37AM (#15036632)
If they did than then they are simulating latency, but I see nothing to suggest they did that.