The sorian PA AI thread

You know, we need to do an 'AI' tournament some time with a whole host of different personalities... Who can make the best overall AI?

I'm pretty sure it would be absolutely boring to normal people, but it would be really cool.

It used to be quite popular. I remember playing games like that where you would build competing AIs, but there doesn't seem to be anything much out there anymore. I only found Battlecode, which admittedly looks pretty cool. But yeah, PA AI tournaments not boring, but really cool!

We can already have AIs fight one another.

I actually ranked Kohan II AIs against each other once through a round-robin tournament.

If you don't tell the viewers that they're AIs, I'd bet the will never know! (For the most part)

What would be even funnier is get someone to cast (e.g. Marshall) and *don't inform the caster its AIs* I can just hear him getting more and more frustrated with it....

They will know. The neural net controlling the platoons still has rather distinct faults, and there are more hard coded functions as well.

Platoon movement, target priorities, flaws in interpreting implicit intelligence (tracers and alike), tendency to have units lingering around the base unused indefintely because no platoon building rule can be satisfied, inability to actually choose between two platoons for a certain task.

Every AI which is using the current framework is going to exhibit the very same behavior in these terms. All you can measure is build order and army composition efficiency.

Given the additional constraints implied by the framework, this means that you can still compare two AIs to each other under the prerequisite of using the same framework, but it allows no conclusion whatsoever how these AIs would fair against humans or against AI using different frameworks, or even just different versions of the framework.

Of course it does, by the only measure that matters: did it win?

Okay, so I'm seeing this:

Code:

[16:12:23.109] ERROR The AI has ancountered an error. Please enable AI logging to see more information.

Firstly, WTH does "ancountered" mean?
Secondly, how can I enable AI logging to see this additional information?

I think I've already solved this particular instance, but would be good to know for the future.

It means next time you make a spelling or grammar mistake yourself, some people will laugh

Don't be silly. Stuart never makes spelling mistakes <3

@Sorian If there's a slash missing from the start of a spec_id in a unit map (eg "pa/units/blah/blahblah/blahblahblah.json") then the server will crash instantly with no message in the server log or a crash uploaded.

Ever play Omega back in the day?

Heh, cool, but no I didn't.

Sorian, won't the AI mistakenly include Unit Cannons in artillery platoons? There's no factory exclusion in its rules.

Oh sorry, not the templates, the platoon_misc_builds file. It will try to form artillery platoons with Unit Cannons.

Code:

{
         "name":"Artillery Platoon",
         "to_build":"Artillery",
         "instance_count":-1,
         "priority":100,
         "build_conditions":[
            [
               {
                  "test_type":"UnitPoolCount",
                  "unit_type_string0":"Structure & (Artillery | Tactical)",
                  "compare0":">=",
                  "value0":1
               }
            ]
         ],
         "task_type":"Artillery"
      }

Great, now time to get back to integrating all your cool new AI tests.