Re: AI questions

[Jens Granseuer <jensgr@xxxxxxx>]

On 23.09.2007 08:08, Philipp Sªsse wrote:
> Hello,
>
> [map]
> > Haven't tried it, yet, so I will refrain from comments for now.
> > (Except for one: it's amazing how many people get the shop tiles
> > wrong... ;-))
>
> Oops! Can't we call that "creative" rather than "wrong"? (-;

You can call it whatever you like. That won't make it right,
though ;-)

> > And, of course, this
> > course of action is only helpful for combined mines/factories,
> > unless we teach the AI to ferry crystals around...
>
> Yes, that's another interesting target, but I don't feel that
> I'm ready for that one.

Transportation in general is pretty difficult to get right.

> > AI improvements have long been on the wishlist. At one point
> > we've also been thinking about having multiple AI implementations
> > that map designers could chose from according to the mission
> > requirements and e.g. the difficulty setting. Provided we
> > supported that, one very nice way to check whether AI changes
> > are actually an improvement, would be to pit different AIs
> > against each other...
[snip]
> I didn't find that discussion in the list archive. Who remembers
> where I have to look?

http://archives.seul.org/crimson/users/Mar-2004/msg00019.html

> Maybe one day I did dig deep enough to do such a thing. But if
> I'm lucky, someone else does it before me. (-:

In my experience, very few people are that lucky. ;-)

> > Well, to cut a long story short: There's a lot of work left
> > to be done to improve the AI, and any work towards that goal
> > would certainly be appreciated.
>
> Okay, I'm already working ...

Great. I'm looking forward to the results.

Jens