The AI Improvement Thread

Edi · #1 June 28th, 2008, 05:43 PM

One thing that would be an immense improvement would be if we were able to design AI gods with the pretender creation tool. Choose difficulty, design pretender with the appropriate number of bonus points and it would be saved to an ai_gods folder or something like that, and if game setup had a "Load random predesigned AI pretender", SP would start looking a lot better.

Of course, that's a fairly extensive feature request, so not likely to happen.

JimMorrison · #2 June 28th, 2008, 05:48 PM

If only someone had already designed a program that could be used as a reference point in order to quickly and easily implement such an upgrade to the core game..... >.>

MaxWilson · #3 June 28th, 2008, 06:42 PM

I know, I know. I will make some files for the God maker program... soon.

-Max

Gandalf Parker · #4 June 28th, 2008, 08:04 PM

Well Im not big on pushing for the devs to do things that we can already do. Thats one of the reasons I stopped reading the wishes list. I got tired of answering "we can already do that" to so many of the posts. Id rather they spent time on things we cant do.

There is already a program to design gods and use them randomly as AIs. Im trying to take that concept one step farther and also do a mid-game change fo tactics.

HoneyBadger · #5 June 29th, 2008, 03:24 PM

It would be nice if the AI could throw some random weirdness at us, once in a while. Like a series of AI-only events. One turn there's only 1 AI Pretender, the next turn-inexplicably-there's three. How'd it happen? Doesn't really matter. It just matters that it happened, and we as players have to adapt or fail.

JimMorrison · #6 June 29th, 2008, 04:14 PM

3 pretenders for the same nation?

What if the AI just had a huge list of pretender-ish multi-heroes, with an increased chance to get one each turn? That increased chance, modified by difficulty, of course.

Gandalf Parker · #7 June 29th, 2008, 04:30 PM

I can do both of those.
Hmmmmm how about mid-game the pretender is replaced by his 3 sons? Im not sure if its an AI fix. Is there a nation which could particularly benefit from such an action?

Think of a nation, think of its mid-game failure to adapt, then tell me what it needs to fix that.