What? I hope you're being ironic, because if you're not you seriously don't understand the point of bot-based strategy games: https://www.battlecode.org/info/
Having one person being able to pay for more cycles is the textbook definition of unfair : it restricts the non-paying player to a subset of optimized searches, while the paying player can ultimately get an edge because of his additional compute.
Having one person being able to pay for more cycles is the textbook definition of unfair : it restricts the non-paying player to a subset of optimized searches, while the paying player can ultimately get an edge because of his additional compute.