RPG Empire AI, whaddaya think?

AJ · 2000-08-27T04:04:18

Hey all. More brainstorming on the dynamic, changing empires (or kingdoms or nations) concept and am curious what you think: An empire is made up of areas, NPCs, and objects. Areas are maps/levels. Areas can have other areas attached or imbedded. Each area has attributes. These are things like population, crime, army strength, etc. Attributes can be modified by NPCs, objects, and the player. The actions the player can take == how these are attribs are modified. Example: Decrease a population by poisoning the water supply, increase the wealth of church by donating coins, etc. As the player adventures, the empires are are making alliances, declaring war, invading each other, etc, etc. Real AI isn''t used to solve this (too expensive); instead, we cheat and use random rolls and stuff. Smoke and mirrors, but the player isn''t be cheated so they shouldn''t care. This should give better control of what''s happening in the game. Players can get in on the empire action. The AI leaders of an empire should be able to communicate their desires to the player. This creates quests. (This needs a function to compute difficulty with reward.) Who gives you what quests is based on your reputation. Your reputation is earned by accomplishing quests. What''s left? Need to figure out what goals the AI empires have. Then, how they can fulfill them. I''m stuck on figuring out when they should do one thing or another (build or fight? fish, cut bait? ). There''s prolly a ton of stuff I''m forgetting... ... man, I''m dreaming of being able to play a character right in the middle of all this!!!! -------------------- Just waiting for the mothership...

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Started by Wavinator August 19, 2000 08:01 PM

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Paul Cunningham

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August 27, 2000 04:02 AM

quote: Original post by Wavinator
Yeah, I can see increasing values. In an example of an enemy massing on your border, this seems like a simple tolerance trigger (or set of triggers). These are examples of a present condition that can be detected and acted upon.

This is where i was kind of leading to in the "Artifical Intuition" thread. The AI could try to analyse the minute figures about how the player plays. Little details that we all analyse about each other every day but we take for granted. Such simple things like "Are we left handed" or "Are we risk takers" these types of calculations done by the computer would make a completely new type of AI systems. Excellent for strategy games but they could also be used in RPG's to allow the computer to have some indication on when we're at out most vunrable to trigger an act that would affect the players plans. Great for the common evil empire that the player is out to destroy in a RPG.

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Edited by - Paul Cunningham on August 27, 2000 5:04:18 AM

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