For Backers Only: AI building stuff

nuke balancing needs some serious love.

The AI's proper use of nukes is a good sign from an AI perspective, not so good from a game balance perspective.

Yeah i play against hard ai.

I'm not sure how to solve that, then. The AI knows it has extra resources, and the best thing to do would be to rush nukes. Hopefully the AI keeps getting better so that it can be a challenge without such a big resource advantage..

Thats the kind of game play i dont want us to see, "spam nukes or die to nukes".

I do think nukes are needed in the game, but as they are right now "they just invalidate everything else". As you said balance is an issue.

Dont know how the ai could be tuned with out using some form of economy modifier. *shrugs*

BTW, if you follow Sorian on Twitter you will notice that he's implementing neural networks. This ought to be fun...

Oh sh!! Haha.... We all thought it would be called skynet, but in truth the end came at the interface leads of the Sorian ai...

I just hope nuke balancing comes in at least somewhat before that. The AI is already a nuisance with nukes, don't need to add intelligent unit control to that too...

What's his twitter address?

AI spamming nukes?... It almost sounds like another game I used to play, *ahem... Supcom2*

It it works too well.

Then the AI is working perfectly.

Is it just my imagination or was the ai improved in that newest update ?

Was the first version of neural networks implemented ?

Hey Sorian, have you ever read "The Two Faces of Tomorrow" by James P. Hogan? One of my favorite AI reads. I'd recommend it if you're into sci-fi.

I suspect that'll get a big line in the changelog when it happens.

Any new updates on the AI Sorian? It looks to have improved quite a bit in recent patches....

In live or in the next build?

Hi, you must be new here.

If you were to ignore that this individual post was a while back.. I want to raise a question.

Shouldn't this be a unit AI be for all units in-game, and not just the enemy AIs? I totally see why the AI should get this, but if the AI can micro every single unit, it's going to force the player into countering with units they have to micro as well, or they will lose basically every single encounter.

If our own units could micro themselves when directly attacking targets or defending against incoming enemies, it would be a huge step in removing as much manual micro from the game as possible. Isn't that the goal? I think this is an amazing unit AI, and is possibly the very thing we need.