Curious about Dominions? how the AI thinks? which AI is best/worst? - Page 4

Sombre · #1 January 12th, 2009, 12:37 PM

Sounds like dom death, non?

Gandalf Parker · #2 January 12th, 2009, 12:50 PM

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Originally Posted by Sombre

Sounds like dom death, non?

Your right.
Too bad, it would have been a glorious battle.

Well I am getting farther in my Watcher mod. Its usable now but I have to clean it up and come up with some filler before Id want to make it publicly available. Then I can watch, maybe record, some interesting battles.

Gandalf Parker · #3 January 12th, 2009, 01:43 PM

Thats odd.
I just started a Late Era test. Atlantis (playing aggressive) was the first nation out (0 provinces). That isnt odd. But then they came back. They went up and down for abit between 1 and 3 provinces then died off again.

lch · #4 January 12th, 2009, 01:47 PM

Atlantis is a nation which starts outside of the water in LA. If their cap is the last province under their control and being sieged, it shows as 0 provinces, until they successfully break the siege.

Redeyes · #5 January 12th, 2009, 01:54 PM

As you were able to see how the AI allocates items, can you similarly see how the ai uses its gems?
Globals, how much they summon, if they just hoard gems in overgrowing piles and that kind of information would be interesting

Gandalf Parker · #6 January 12th, 2009, 03:35 PM

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Originally Posted by Redeyes

As you were able to see how the AI allocates items, can you similarly see how the ai uses its gems?
Globals, how much they summon, if they just hoard gems in overgrowing piles and that kind of information would be interesting

Im putting the game logs in the same browser viewable directory so people can see some of what the game records. You can see spell castings, and I dont think construction shows up but it gives it to someone so you get an idea of what they like to make.

I could go ahead and turn that logging up a couple of notches to get more info.

Gandalf Parker · #7 January 12th, 2009, 01:59 PM

That makes sense.

I could also have read the log. Thats why its there

Gandalf Parker · #8 January 15th, 2009, 02:49 PM

Arrgghh!!
I think I might have to kill this test. This latest Late_AI test has been running for 3 days, and the latest turn in that game took 2.5 hours to host. And it still looks far from done. Im not sure I would even want to predict the winner. I hate to kill it but I could have done 3 other tests in this same time frame.

Gandalf Parker · #9 January 15th, 2009, 03:00 PM

By the way, for those who wish to "see" more of what the AI is doing:

Start a game with the --comptrn switch and add AIs into it.

This will create turn files for the computer players, and allow you to look at them. You can see what the computer is buying, making, researching, assigning, etc.

Hopefully this will allow some movement forward in creating mods which make use of the AIs actions, and avoid the worse ones.

Thank you Johan for another release of some of the NDA stuff (non-disclosure agreement). Im very sorry thru all of the arguments here that I was unable to discuss beta-group things such as the hidden switches. --allai, --superhost, and --comptrn being some of the more interesting and informative ones.

MaxWilson · #10 January 15th, 2009, 05:04 PM

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Originally Posted by Gandalf Parker

By the way, for those who wish to "see" more of what the AI is doing:

Start a game with the --comptrn switch and add AIs into it.

This will create turn files for the computer players, and allow you to look at them. You can see what the computer is buying, making, researching, assigning, etc.

Awesome! I am going to try this... soon. Next time I play Dom3, which will probably be within a week.

-Max