Re: Suggestion: How\'s aboot a viceroy?
First off, I would love to see this. Since Im 95% solo play in any game I own I think this would be wonderful. But I dont think its likely to happen.
Such a project gets into the same thing that the AI discussion does except I think it makes things alittle mroe complicated. Much of the discussion about it can probably be found in the AI discussions. As the game is now there are no "hooks" (tags, variable names) for accessing the things that would need to be accessed. The AI is not a seperate AI for each race but just one AI trying to make generally good decisions with general tags. I dont think "Sauromancer" is recognized except maybe as "most expensive mage".
Also most early efforts would increase the game immensely. Its already a large memory/CPU footprint even it if is only running as a host to allow file transfers. Unless the program is broken into loadable modules then many desireable things would be major projects.
Wih one programmer I think that the multiplayers list is probably far more than enough to keep them busy before they look too much at solo-play things
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