To the AI programmers

[Canute VII]

Hi dear antagonists,

I recently stumbled upon this and thought "might be interesting tp pdx". It's about a "strategy system" that plays FreeCIV and wins 80% of the time against human players and always against in-game AI (according to the firm's ceo). I'd love to play against this in EUIV

https://freeciv-leader-board.hiro.community/about

 

[Chaingun]

Expecting general AI to take over game AI programming in a few years, the typical issue for PDS titles is that the AI must run on the customer's potato hardware.

 

[Canute VII]

Expecting general AI to take over game AI programming in a few years, the typical issue for PDS titles is that the AI must run on the customer's potato hardware.

I don't have a clue about how many ressources the game AI needs vs. such a "general AI". But if it's much more, then running game AI and general AI in tandem could be a step forward. E.g. if only "lucky nations" were driven by general AI, all others by game AI? Or if general AI would be randomly assigned to a few select countries to spice things up? Never mind, I see you guys are familiar eith the topic and have had a look into it. In the end you know best.

 

[Canute VII]

Another thought I had goes like this: why not treat "general AI" like a human player and actually handing to it a game instead of embedding it into the game? I mean, you already have multi-player - so the "general AI" could take the role of an actual player and reside on a pdx server (so the limitations of players desktop computers would not be a problem anymore). Multiplayer then could give the option to play against human and/or AI players, as one likes it. Apart from being fun for players to play with, I believe there's also much to be learned from this at pdx. I'm not going to write a business plan for this, but I believe this could even be profitable for pdx if players pay a fee for the service. Well, in any case, it would be just awesome.