September 11th, 2007, 12:44 PM
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Re: AI Questions
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Frostmourne27 said:
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Archonsod said:
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Sombre said:
In regard to equipment, saying 'the AI is there' is pointless. If you had one AI set to build and assign items totally at random and one AI using the current system, could anyone tell the difference?
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I've never seen the AI give a useless item to a commander, nearly all of them provide a benefit in some way.
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AKAIK, there are no 'useless' items. Although you have point, I think Sombre is right. Half of the time, the Ai does stupid things, like equiping non-assassins with skull talismans, or mages with black plate. The other half of the time, they make decent choices, but I've never seen the Ai equip something that looked like an Sc or Thug because of its equipment.
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Well no one can argue that the AI isnt stupid. But as long as it has some actions, we might be able to work with it.
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It seems to me that this might actually be easy to remedy. Couldn't we just devise a couple of hundred item 'sets' that the computer would try to follow. E.g. large commanders look up item profiles from a list that includes sets like firebrand, charcoal shield, ring of regen, amulet of resiliance and dragon scale mail.
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Thats a good idea. Not for inside the game itself since I wouldnt expect it to get used by the devs unless they ask for it. But it would be a big help to the randomizer program. That does accept equipment lists so if some expert wanted to create a mage list, a commander list, an SC list, an assassin list, (a scout list?) then it would be helpful to people who are working up other game boosts for the SemiRand program to use. It wouldnt control the use of such items in the game but would help in designing starting units with abit of random to them which would still appear to be logically created.
Gandalf Parker
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