GalCiv III: Hanging out this weekend

Published on April 9, 2015 By Frogboy In GalCiv III Dev Journals

Hey guys!

I’m going to be hard core on the GalCiv III AI this weekend.

For those of you just checking in, I put together a long laundry list of new functions I need to improve the AI. In the old days (when I was younger) I would have written those functions myself but now I’m old and fat and lazy and my far more talented colleagues can put together something a lot less hackish.

So this weekend, I’ll be using these new APIs to vastly improve the AI. The weather around here is going to stink so if you’re going to be indoors anyway, let’s hang out (virtually). Just let me know where you guys think is best (Reddit is fine for example) and I’ll be doing streams of what I’m working on and we can chat about how we can get the word out on this game more before it ships and anything else you’d like to chat about.

The Reddit hangout link: http://www.reddit.com/r/GalCiv3/comments/3258sa/dev_weekend_hangout_galciv_iii/

UPDATE: You can also visit http://www.twitch.tv/draginol

-brad

Comments (Page 2)

Frogboy

on Apr 11, 2015

...and so it begins..

Blaze of Glory

on Apr 11, 2015

I admire your will to program with people looking on! As a programmer, I hate it when folks look over my shoulder. I feel rushed.

Anyway, I watched twitch a bit, but I am about to met a bud to play a game and didn't want to go through signing up.

I played a game today and the Yor never built a military ship. After declaring war, their starbases were still building constructors! As I was wiping them out, I noticed they had a transport, but why no military? Plus they were the slowest faction to expand by far. I used all factions, abundant minors and everyone had 7 or so planets except the Ypr which had 3.

Also, It seems the ai doesn't take into account you are culture flipping their planets. I stole 2 from the Thalan and we are all best buds!

I noticed on the twitch you were working on the AI defending their planets, good call.

Best of luck my friend!

Ed1975

on Apr 11, 2015

Blaze of Glory

reply 17

Also, It seems the ai doesn't take into account you are culture flipping their planets. I stole 2 from the Thalan and we are all best buds!

I've noticed this too. I steal planet after planet from the AI yet we remain "close" and it never attacks me...

tid242

on Apr 12, 2015

Please do not allow the AI to learn to ragequit. That would be annoying..

erischild

on Apr 12, 2015

I did a few minutes of looking over Brad's shoulder via the stream. It was interesting and I appreciated it. I am much too rusty on coding, but it looked familiar and I could follow what comments and logic I was seeing. Brad wasn't stopping to show you what he was working on and you had to take what glimpses you could get. That was fair, I thought. Then I remembered how much I hated people looking over my shoulder in real life, and I signed off. I have to admire Brad for offering such a thing.

A couple of family members confessed to doing some live play, with community participation,of an online D&D roleplay variant this weekend. They thought they had descended to extreme levels of geekiness. I told them about watching Brad code an AI. I won the geekiness competition, no contest. .

Seilore

on Apr 12, 2015

I take it things didn't work out today, Sunday, must have been too nice Well I hope you enjoyed your Sunday looking forward when you do this again.

xeryx

on Apr 23, 2015

Frogboy

reply 13

I definitely see a lot of issues with the AI. The challenge isn't noticing things, the challenge is making them NOT do that without putting in an IF THEN statement into the code. You want the AI to calculate this stuff organically otherwise you end up with a scripted AI.

Brad:

I admire this quality of commitment, however sometimes "if then" statements are needed to make sure the Human player does not exploit the AI. Hopefully, it would be used a little as possible.

I hope the commitment will be there to improve the 64bit AI for at least 2 more years, because that will be how long it takes to make a truly good organic AI.

Bamdorf

on Apr 24, 2015

Ed1975

reply 18

Quoting Blaze of Glory,

reply 17

Also, It seems the ai doesn't take into account you are culture flipping their planets. I stole 2 from the Thalan and we are all best buds!

I've noticed this too. I steal planet after planet from the AI yet we remain "close" and it never attacks me...

Frankly, that's what the Thalans deserve! But perhaps not every AI, lol.

androshalforc

on Apr 24, 2015

xeryx

reply 22

however sometimes "if then" statements are needed to make sure the Human player does not exploit the AI

but wouldent an if then statement lead to exploitation of the ai...

IF player does A
THEN do B

that means i can plan a counter for B then Do A triggering B forcing the AI to fall into my trap

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