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AI strategy evolution.

msv · 2001-10-08T21:22:37

Howdy. Consider this small game/problem/whatever : - There are two teams. - Each team has a player that has an attribute representing their health. - When a player of one team is touching a player of another team, they can slowly drain their health from them. That is, they can only drain the person of _one_ enemy player, even if a number of enemy players are touching them. - A team wins when the enemy team is eliminated. Now.. what I want to be able to do is to write the AI for a team and/or its individual players. An "end heuristic" is easy. The culmination of all players'' health with the highest value will obviously reflect the best strategy, and the best strategy is obviously the fact that the greater number of players in a team that are touching an enemy player will drain their health quicker and result in less health-drain from a player from their own team. Following so far ? ;-D If anyone could answer any of the following questions, or point me towards a source/topic that will introduce me to solving this problem, it would be greatly appreciated : - Is writing such an AI program feasible ? - I want to allow the AI to be able to analyse different aspects of its approach towards finding the optimum strategy. When I start adding additional functionality to the players'' abilities, I want to be able to use the same, unmodified AI engine to determine the new optimum strategy given the extra functionality. Is THAT possible, or must I explicitly add sections to the AI to account for new functionality ? It''s late.. I''m rambling.. I''ll leave it at that for now.

Artificial Intelligence Programming

Started by msv October 04, 2001 03:16 PM

9 comments, last by msv 22 years, 8 months ago

Ferretman

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October 08, 2001 09:17 PM

quote: Original post by kirkd
Ferrettman,

Do you happen to have any other references or links to EC being used in this type of situation? Fun stuff!!

-Kirk

You mean along the lines of the chess game? No, nothing else like that. There have been some chess programs that used EC (genetic algorithms) but nothing particularly spectacular that I can bring to mind. I'm not awaer of any other game like CDDNA though there are probably some out there.

Well, the Creatures games do, of course, use GAs, but they're not Risk-like at all. More digital ant farms than anything else.

I've been kicking around using this approach for a strategic space game AI but haven't found the time to do it myself yet. I did propose it for the upcoming AI Wisdom book but it wasn't accepted as a chapter, so I'll have to do it some other time.

Ferretman

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Edited by - Ferretman on October 8, 2001 10:22:37 PM

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