AI Deathmach 3

Slynky · #1 September 15th, 2004, 10:33 PM

"- One on One games (1 AI vs 1 AI). "

Maybe I am not understanding...where does the human player come in at?

Phoenix-D · #2 September 15th, 2004, 10:34 PM

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Slynky said:
"- One on One games (1 AI vs 1 AI). "

Maybe I am not understanding...where does the human player come in at?

They don't. The point is to watch the AI's beat on each other and see which one wins.

TerranC · #3 September 15th, 2004, 10:36 PM

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Slynky said:
"- One on One games (1 AI vs 1 AI). "

Maybe I am not understanding...where does the human player come in at?

There is no human "player" in the deathmatches. Master belisarius will be the "player" and he will only be the observer of the AI matchs. The point of AI deathmatchs is to see which AI stands out above the rest by setting them up against other AIs; The Narn AI won the first one, and the UFE AI won the second one; AI performance at these AI deathmatches done by MB has become the standard on which we can judge the AI's proficiency.

Slynky · #4 September 15th, 2004, 10:48 PM

Ahhh, I see (slaps forehead).

Since I never play with AI, I guess I am just out of the "loop".

Master Belisarius · #5 September 15th, 2004, 11:03 PM

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Slynky said:
"- One on One games (1 AI vs 1 AI). "

Maybe I am not understanding...where does the human player come in at?

TerranC and Phoenix already answered it (the games are between 2 AIs and one "human" empire that doesn't do anything).

I'm doing it, because:
a) Every game must be started with at least one human player.
b) noted that if you start a race as under human control, and later change it to full AI control, doesn't work exactly in the same way than if you started the race as under AI control from the setup.

Then, my workaround was start the game with a "dummy" Human player, and the 2 real contenders starting under "pure" AI control.

Maybe it was fixed with the Lastest patches... but I want to be sure!

Deathstalker · #6 September 15th, 2004, 11:43 PM

I vote for the inclusion of the Tesselite (sp?), darn hardest AI I've faced. In almost every game I've played lately they total all the other AI's and then I'm facing fleets of baseships that just annihilate me.

Master Belisarius · #7 September 16th, 2004, 12:10 AM

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I vote for the inclusion of the Tesselite (sp?), darn hardest AI I've faced. In almost every game I've played lately they total all the other AI's and then I'm facing fleets of baseships that just annihilate me.

hehehe, thanks, but you make me feel ashamed! (Gryphin did the beautiful shipset and I did the AI scripts).
The Tessellate already were included (because they finished second in the previous Death Match).
Thanks again!

Timstone · #8 September 16th, 2004, 06:54 AM

Ah, great idea to host another AI Deathmatch. Much praise and thanks to you Master Belisarius.

I'm curious who will win. My money is on the Drakol. I always like those guys. I play a lot myself with that shipset.

Ragnarok · #9 September 16th, 2004, 10:49 AM

I think perhaps we could have the Tesselite take this match.

But I look forward to seeing how this match turns out, MB!

Gandalph · #10 September 16th, 2004, 11:30 AM

Absolutely tremendous idea to do this again. I am glad my Tesli'k made the list in 20th, but I have since updated their files based on the results of the Last Deathmatch. I will double check and send you the zipped files.