Dominions III Artificial Intelligence

[Unknown_Enemy]

Johan K said:
Hi Cherry!

At the risk of being unpopular, there won't being any support for programming your own AI in Dominions III. It would be much work to do and believe almost no one would take advantage of that possibility anyway. If there will be a way to influence the AI it will be mod settings that are easy to fiddle around with.

A hasty jugement.
Look at space empire 4 ! Score of players fiddled with AI, improving score of them to the point where none of the ingame AI could handle the heat from the customs one.

There has even been AI contests where all customs AI battled each others just to decide who's the best.

Too bad we'll can't have that on Dom3.

[Valandil]

Interestingly, the P=NP? problem will likely never be solved. The basic stucture of it is such that any proof will probably be unconstructive, i.e, it either is untrue, or it is impossible to proove whether it is right or not. The main problem in understanding this is that NP is NOT the same as non-P. a problem is NP if you can determine whether a proposed solution IS a solution in polynomial time. If someone could find an NP complete problem (that is one that if solved in polynomial time demonstrates that all NP can be)and solve it. the trouble is, if we find just 1 NP complete that is P, we have proved it, but no number of NP that do not =P will disprove it. The SAT gate of boolean computation is a very simple NP complete problem. If Illwinter can solve this, I, on behalf of all mathematicians from Euclid to the present, thank them.

But it won't happen. A minesweeper SAT gate would require all the computing power illwinter has at its disposal. Dominions3 would be impossible.

An'ya i Suotho,
Valandil

[Ironhawk]

Flashbacks of my CS training...

Why are you doing this to me!!!