Single Player Rant

Hadrian_II · #1 June 29th, 2007, 04:09 PM

I think the problem with the dom3 AI is that it does not know complex tactics, but just throws lots of Units at you. If you survived the first 30 Turns on a SP game you are almost sure to win, as the AI from then on just cant cope with you. I think the only game that i met that had some AI that was actually challenging after the early game was in GalCiv II. (as soon as it works in WINE i become really happy)

Fate · #2 June 29th, 2007, 11:43 PM

Many open-source games -including civ-evo and Wesnoth- have opted for open AI editing. In theory this could allow the players to develop the AI as the strategies change.

I think it would be nice if the devs could do one of the following:

A) Add a -info or -i command that dumps all information, including sites, provinces, troops, etc...

B) Add an "unencrypted" option that doesn't encrypt the fatherland file so it can be read.

Then an external AI could read it and output a .2h file as if it were a human. I have never tried making an AI, but I haven't really had a reason to.

Gandalf Parker · #3 June 30th, 2007, 12:12 AM

Ive pushed for open source AI, and some bot-accessable hooks to the game since day one. We have gotten some output changes which have helped but more would be nice.