For Backers Only: AI building stuff

coooooool

if you have two AI in the same spot they build buildings on top of each other. :lol:

Nice. I'm looking forward to seeing its intelligence evolve...

So currently it just does air factories and units?

Ok cool - thanks for the quick reply! =D

Sorian is there any chance that this game will get an adjacency bonus?

IF not what spacing will you make the AI build? more like a player and thus jammed together. Or everything spaced out as we see it doing in the pictures and hwo the buildings are spawned?

would you personally like to see a supcom inspired adjacency bonus?

Great job Sorian!

Looking forward to playing against the AI in the future

Cheers,

-Todd

it would be amazing to see the AI intelligently constructing lines of defence at pinch points or strategically viable locations

Skirmish AIs tend to be boring to play against as they would just build defenses at random. In command and conquer, anyway

Cool stuff, thanks a lot for sharing

Oooohh.

that... is pretty awesome!

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Does the AI still build the current base template? 4x air factories (or how much facts they have atm.) or do they also build some ground facts now?

First of all: COOL

Do the randomly generated maps have AI markers by the way ? guessing no ?
How will the AI know where is a good place to build defences and things ? can it recognize terrain advantages like chasms and mountains and mesa`s ?

Calm down cowboy! All in good time

We have discussed visual adjacency as a possibility, as it can be really cool. Actual bonuses from adjacency is a HUGE pain in the butt to balance and limits how you have to build your base, which frankly.. kinda sucks.

Agreed. In theory I would have thought this should be able to be implemented. The AI could for example look for choke points by referring to the flow field cost maps and then string defences between impassable terrain...

This is likely to be ridiculously hard to implement, but it would be cool to have the AI build defences reactively too - if it had to fend off an attack from a particular quarter it might then reinforce its defences at that point. The logical conclusion of this would be an AI which plans defences in the way a human does: by looking at their own base and thinking "how would I attack this?" I think at that point though you'd be pretty close to actual artificial intelligence though xD

I think we would be fine if it just showed resource tubes connecting bases with said pipe lines. Supcom bases look so awesome when the AI makes them. If there are bonuses that come from them eh.

but if no bounses then one could make them connect at greater distances instead of just when other buildings are close.