Atten Devs: AI (Rules-based dynamic scripting?)

[Gandalf Parker]

The fatherland does exist only on host. But at this time even the host does not have that level of access to the games. It might not be a problem but it would be a nasty one-way trip if it turned out to be one. Actually, the level of info available by the debug command concerns me enough as things are now.

The internal formats are rarely discussed.

If the faatherland was broken up by players or created seprately for the AI then it could be accessed seperatly without knowing everything about everyone. That would probably be best anyway since it would allow for creating a view of teh world that includes only what the AI has "seen".

[llamabeast]

Surely the trn file has everything an AI might need in order to play its turn, in the same way that it has everything a human needs to play its turn.

What Max needs to know, if I understand correctly, is if anyone knows what the format of the trn and 2h files is (the AI would need to create 2h files). I have no idea, but I presume the answer is that no one knows the formats. It's not obvious that there should be any problem with releasing them, though.

[Ygorl]

If we did have the file formats, it would open up a whole new arena of metagames... We could have AI contests!