How Dumb Is Your Game AI?

dumbluck · #1 May 6th, 2002, 07:16 AM

Well, does it count if I pretend to play chess? I can move the pieces without breaking the rules, but other than that....

Gozra · #2 May 6th, 2002, 07:44 AM

The AI do dumb things because the TEXT files need fixing. I recently finished a game in which I placed a neutral on a sphere world. IT started the game with 100,000 research points no one got to it until turn 90 or so. The neutral was still using level one missles and level one Projectile weapons. We later found that the research files for all the AI's and neutrals had errors in them that prevented them from researching correctly.

HEMAN · #3 May 6th, 2002, 09:03 AM

My game AI minister is so dumb:it tries to load pop from my low pop planets to another low planet.

My game AI oppenet is so dumb: it ask for a treaty with me and when i accept it,AI refuses the treaty?.

My game AI oppenet is so dumb: it ask for the same treaty,which i say no, It sends the same one 2 turns later. NOTE; It just wont take no for an answer?.

My game AI oppenet is so dumb: it ask for the same trade exchange that i just sent him?.

The Ferengi Rules of Acquisition #48 The bigger the smile, the sharper the knife.

Tnarg · #4 May 6th, 2002, 10:32 AM

I will admit to an extreme folly. I once spent four days, or 32 hours designing my own map; had it ready to go after many tests; was going to do one Last adjustment (add an extra planet); and then went to test it; liked what i had, except for one tiny little adjustment; went to load the map in the editor, but accidently hit the save button; lost everything.

So here I am, four days later, 38 hours into my next project; then I discover that the AI is really retarded and has a mind of its own. Ahh, what do you do. Life goes on and I am 70 hours of experienced map editor guru. Right.

Atrocities · #5 May 6th, 2002, 11:34 AM

THe AI is actually rather good at the right bonus and and such. The object of this thread is really to have fun. We all know the AI does dumb things, but we seldom post about it.

My game AI is so dumb it offers a Partnership Treaty and then declares war on me within 5 turns.

Get it?? Just have fun.

disabled · #6 May 7th, 2002, 01:29 AM

I've seen the AI do some stupid stuff. Like send and entire fleet into mothball and attack with me obsolete ships. But still, it's better than no AI.

In some games, the AI has given me a run for my money, others it hasn't.

Gryphin · #7 May 6th, 2002, 02:45 PM

Oh, you mean the times the AI:
Repeatedly sent ships through Unstable Warp Points into sectors with Black Holes.
Had no treaties with me but agreed to swap large amounts of tech I desperately needed for an empty out of supply Colony ship, (of the same type as its home world). All warp points between the traded ship and the Ais space were blocked by satellites. It never made a treaty with me and never got the ship back. Eventually it moved into the path of a ship with a “Move To” command and was destroyed. “Mea Culpa”.