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Originally posted by jowe01:
Ben, as you expressed yourself rather forcefully, do you as an AI programmer think that SE4 is just too complex to have a decent non-cheating (or little-cheating) AI, as it has been stated on this board before ?[/b]
They've put a lot of work into getting the AI as far as it is, and to make it controlable through the data files. (Very good design on their part btw.)
My opinion is that it just needs more bug fixing, tuning, and polishing. If some more of this work is done I think the AI can be as good as in most any strategy game.
It would be nice to see the publisher (SG) put some effort into coordinating the efforts that some of the people here are putting in to this. It is hard for MM to deal with this kind of stuff and work on the actual bug fixes too.
The number of people that want to actually develop and tweak on the AI files is tiny. The number of people that would find these very useful is huge (being about as big as the number of people playing the game.)
Ben Polk