Evil Overlord wrote:have been interested in ai's recently, i was wondering when the AI starts to degrade in relation to how fast the game is running, i.e. if the ai is running at 100% at normal speed versus only running at 80% at fast (or what ever the values are for supreme ruler)
as a side question, have there been any thought as to implementing some form of neural network to help guide the ai's?
You mean, if the AI at slower speed makes worse decisions? No it doesn't.
But as a side note: compared to human players the AI always makes a worse decision. However, SR AI is the best on the market without a doubt.
But humans are so filled with ingenuity, come up with something no one ever thought about before.
There's no AI capable of doing that, yet! BG might be able to get a much better AI if they make that part of the game open source.
Just like civilization a nice SDK kit so people can add in their views and give the AI other tactical choices.
For instance, I'd have the AI to probe for entrenched stacks. Since that's my "trick" in the game to make sure an army of 20.000.000 modern troops can't penetrate
a small 10.000 troop army
If the AI were a human player, he'd simply send 20 or 30 artillery and bye bye my whole trick wouldn't work anymore.
Of send in a few bombers to punch a whole.
best:"both!"
or launch a small nuke..
Nothing of these the AI ever considers.
So, I'd simply look how I play, and beat myself.
I'd ask other players to send in save games where they "beat" the AI .. at that point. and what they do at that point to beat the AI..
and I'll just trial and error how to beat that myself and than program it into the AI.
To avoid performance drain, have specific profiles to combat specific ways how humans try to beat the AI.
and dedicated 1 CPU core specifically to search and find these "tricks" on the map and if found.. flag that specific profile
That's an AI that'll going to kick human ass after a few years of enogh people sending in tactics and strategies how they beat the AI.
But right now, AI already is very smart in BG.. but it'll never be perfect.