[ian-reeds-games] Re: helping players to help the AI
- From: "Allan Thompson" <allan1.thompson@xxxxxxx>
- To: <ian-reeds-games@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 1 Apr 2013 18:43:32 -0400
Ok, so I was way off then, lol.
Thanks for explaining that.
al
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----- Original Message -----
From: Ian Reed
To: ian-reeds-games@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Monday, April 01, 2013 6:16 PM
Subject: [ian-reeds-games] Re: helping players to help the AI
Hey Allan,
The suggestion is to combine both a priority list and randomization into
one flag.
So Carlos example was this:
random_skills=eat_food,panic,attack|mini_pistol|open_door,move,defend
So in this there are 3 priority groups.
The highest priority contains:
eat_food,panic,attack
The second highest contains:
mini_pistol
And the lowest priority contains:
open_door,move,defend
The AI will always favor a higher group over a lower one as long as one
of the skills can be performed and the AI deems the skill worth using at
all.
Within each group the AI will randomly choose between the skills as you
had suggested.
So the flag allows people to override the priority groups but also adds
the randomization within each group.
If you don't want randomization then you just make each skill it's own
group.
And if you don't want prioritization then you just put all skills in the
same group.
Hope that clears up the core of it.
I was also thinking aloud about an edge case where it might be good to
have an additional flag that determines where the AI tries to move when
it uses it's move skill.
Currently the AI moves to the nearest location that let's it use a
skill, but it would sometimes be good to tell the AI that it should
always favor moving toward locations that let it use higher priority
skills rather than lower priority ones.
That is a secondary scenario though.
Ian Reed
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