November 2002
- Economic Indices for Virtual Worlds Koster, Raph
- Economic Indices for Virtual Worlds Frank Crowell
- Economic Indices for Virtual Worlds Justin Stocks
- Real money and virtual worlds Koster, Raph
- Real money and virtual worlds Dave Trump
- Real money and virtual worlds Amanda Walker
- Real money and virtual worlds Ron Gabbard
- Real money and virtual worlds Matt Mihaly
- Real money and virtual worlds Ron Gabbard
- Real money and virtual worlds Marc Fielding
- Real money and virtual worlds Martin Bassie
- Real money and virtual worlds Matt Mihaly
- descriptive logic Bruce Mitchener
- descriptive logic Robert Zubek
- Picketing in Sims Online Koster, Raph
- Picketing in Sims Online Derek Licciardi
- Picketing in Sims Online John Robert Arras
- Picketing in Sims Online Marc Fielding
- Picketing in Sims Online shren
- Picketing in Sims Online Marc Fielding
- Picketing in Sims Online Dave Rickey
- Picketing in Sims Online Damion Schubert
- Picketing in Sims Online Mike Shaver
- Picketing in Sims Online Marc Fielding
- online voice communication Matt Mihaly
- online voice communication Dave Trump
- online voice communication Sasha Hart
- online voice communication Ted L. Chen
- online voice communication Amanda Walker
- online voice communication Koster, Raph
- online voice communication Ted L. Chen
- online voice communication Amanda Walker
- online voice communication Damion Schubert
- online voice communication Peter Harkins
- online voice communication Daniel.Harman@barclayscapital.com
- online voice communication Amanda Walker
- online voice communication Hans-Henrik Staerfeldt
- online voice communication Amanda Walker
- online voice communication Dave Trump
- online voice communication Amanda Walker
- online voice communication Miroslav Silovic
- online voice communication Corey Crawford
- online voice communication Marc Fielding
- online voice communication Corey Crawford
- Point of Purchase "Cards" for Online Services Christopher Allen
- Point of Purchase "Cards" for Online Services Steven Cummings
- Point of Purchase "Cards" for Online Services Matt Mihaly
- Point of Purchase "Cards" for Online Services David Kennerly
- Point of Purchase "Cards" for Online Services Damion Schubert
- Point of Purchase "Cards" for Online Services Ron Gabbard
- Korea and online world responsibility Koster, Raph
- Korea and online world responsibility Sean Kelly
- Korea and online world responsibility apollyon
- Korea and online world responsibility Koster, Raph
- Korea and online world responsibility Rudy Fink
- Korea and online world responsibility shren
- Korea and online world responsibility Clay
- Korea and online world responsibility Sean Kelly
- Korea and online world responsibility Marian Griffith
- Korea and online world responsibility Matt Mihaly
- Korea and online world responsibility Damion Schubert
- Korea and online world responsibility Sean Kelly
- Korea and online world responsibility Hans-Henrik Staerfeldt
- Korea and online world responsibility Mike Parker
- [MUD-DEV]: Stories in Multiplayer Online Games holding99@mindspring.com
- FEAR Animat style AI for Quake 2 Frank Crowell
- FEAR Animat style AI for Quake 2 Ted L. Chen
- FEAR Animat style AI for Quake 2 Dave Rickey
- FEAR Animat style AI for Quake 2 Sasha Hart
- FEAR Animat style AI for Quake 2 Dave Rickey
- FEAR Animat style AI for Quake 2 Sasha Hart
- FEAR Animat style AI for Quake 2 Ted L. Chen
- FEAR Animat style AI for Quake 2 Freeman, Jeff
- FEAR Animat style AI for Quake 2 Amanda Walker
- FEAR Animat style AI for Quake 2 Frank Crowell
- FEAR Animat style AI for Quake 2 Damion Schubert
- FEAR Animat style AI for Quake 2 shren
- FEAR Animat style AI for Quake 2 Frank Crowell
From: "shren" <shren@io.com>
> On Mon, 2 Dec 2002, Freeman, Jeff wrote:
>> From Ted L. Chen
>>> It lacks learning, and reaks of hard-coding if-then statements.
>>> But in most cases, it gives the semblance of high-level
>>> intelligence and isn't as prone to generating really really
>>> weird conditionals (unless of course your AI programmer has had
>>> one too many beers).
>> There's a danger here, I think is being overlooked: What if you
>> succeed? So, great, now your AI is as able as a real human
>> being. Fighting an orc isn't like fighting an orc any more, it's
>> just like fighting a player who is pretending to be an orc.
>> In my experience, players don't even like it when AI is given the
>> ability to determine that a given battle is a lost cause, that
>> the AI ought to just run away. They like the AI to be a bit
>> stupid.
> An interesting side-tale - Angband is a permadeath single player
> game that has been around a long time. There was a long period of
> time where the AI got tougher, and was better able to use the
> abilities of each monster. It was starting to reach the point
> where the game was much, much harder.
> Any modification to your AI beyond the trivial calls for
> rebalancing.
Actually this is an issue that is rarely considered and could very
well ruin the notion of "game". In the FPS community the bots are
much disliked. The assumption is that the bots cheat and therefore
shouldn't be allowed.
I have posted several times on the theme that bots are disliked by
the admins and most players. The only ones that seem to like bots
are the botmakers. Even MUDs quickly made the environments hostile
to bots and almost every mud today still has the restrictions
against cyborgs and bots. The smart bots were kicked out and the
dumb bots got to stay taking in-server jobs as mobs and NPCs.
The assumption is that smart mobs are only for players. Actually
smart mobs can also be for external bots in bots vs mobs events.
This would not unbalance the overall game play and certainly could
be an excellent laboratory for both the botmakers and the mobmakers.
I would go as far as saying there should be a new player object -- a
bot that also has its own race/class. The biggest problem that I
see with this setup is the cyborg (combo PC and Bot). I am not sure
how the cyborg fits in all this although cyborgs have been common in
most MUD environments thanks to tinyfuge and a few other macro
tools.
frank
- FEAR Animat style AI for Quake 2 Frank Crowell
- FEAR Animat style AI for Quake 2 Daniel.Harman@barclayscapital.com
- Virtual worlds as a Society of Mind Frank Crowell
- Virtual worlds as a Society of Mind Ted L. Chen
- Virtual worlds as a Society of Mind Daniel.Harman@barclayscapital.com
- Virtual worlds as a Society of Mind Ted L. Chen
- Virtual worlds as a Society of Mind Frank Crowell
- Virtual worlds as a Society of Mind Sean Kelly
- BIZ: MMORG Pioneer looking for part/full time gig F. Randall Farmer
- OpenCroquet Bruce Mitchener
- OpenCroquet Frank Crowell
- OpenCroquet Frank Crowell
- [TECH] memory management system released Bruce Mitchener