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6/3/2008 7:35 AM

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This game is lost now. There is absolutely nothing I can do against granadiers. The mistake was made @ the beginning, when I went to war on Shaka the 1st time. In retrospect, I can speculate that had I not done that, but instead built up the infrastructure & grew city pop I would be building granadiers by now too. Even if AI let me be for another 50-70 turns w/out war now, there would be hope
-- Never try to impress a woman, bcz if u do she'll expect u to keep up the standard for the rest of ur life. W. C. Fields

Black Owl

6/3/2008 11:42 AM

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I find most games employ this. By cranking up the difficulty level you are doing really, nothing more than weighing the game in the "Bosses"/AI favor. "Siphon Filter", "Command and Conquer", "Resident Evil", all of them "cheat" big time on higher levels. I guess a program developer would tell you it's all about the math. Since you can not yet make Artifical Intelligence intuitive, you must bend the rules.
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6/3/2008 12:22 PM

lame duck

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AI cannot learn that is its biggest shortfall. As for intelligence, it does come down to arithmetics & I dont think discounts that AI gets is really cheating. AI will always follow the preprogramed set of rules & you just have to compensate it against higher level of play. That's what discounting does. Nice it would be to have an AI that followed seperate sets of rules @ different difficulty levels, but I guess programming several AI's for the same game is just too expensive. Although they could use subtraction & dice rolling to make AI more variable.
-- Never try to impress a woman, bcz if u do she'll expect u to keep up the standard for the rest of ur life. W. C. Fields

Black Owl

6/3/2008 12:35 PM

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"Command and Conquer/Tiberian Sun", imitates (poorly, but by far the best) Human intelligence by seeming to learn and employ tactical and strategic ploys from the player to a limited extent. But as you say, at great cost of Megabytes. But the the AI does pull some unexpected maneuvers, which greatly increases game interest. I figure I have about twenty good years left in me. (Baring asteroids, comets, volcano's, or the woman in an SUV with a soccer ball sticker and a cell phone to her ear) I hope I don't expire before I see a game where the AI really surprises me.
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6/3/2008 12:44 PM

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Watch out for them women. They are far more numerous than asteroids that deside to drop in
-- Never try to impress a woman, bcz if u do she'll expect u to keep up the standard for the rest of ur life. W. C. Fields

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