Spring RTS Engine

You may not ever be able to build an AI that can play fibre. I can. An FPS AI can play capture the flag, so my RTS AI surely can. On the other hand, I'm seeing now that I don't have to care. These would simply fall under the control of the Combat Control Agent. It'll simply see it as one powerful un...

Well, until the map thingy arrives, no one is going to know what you're talking about. If I have to make my AI stop every few minutes and go: Can I capture anything? Do I care enough to try? Why do I have to bother instead of just blowing the opponent off the map? It's going to blow performance out ...

Then don't use a static FBI value. Issquad=x could be the value multiplier for the specific unit. I don't have time to hunt down and pick the value for every unit my AI encounters. If you build the unit, you know it better than I do, and so you're better equipped to pick the value.

Then all you need is the tag Issquad. That'll signify that the unit is actually multiples, and the total cost/efficiency is equal to 1/X, with X being the number of units in the squad, for the cost of the squad. So: 3000/1000@1/10 cost = 300/100. That's the unit of efficiency the AI'll use. There do...

Not necessarily, they won't be priority targets by any means. So if an actual enemy unit is coming, they'll shoot those first.

I think you're looking at it from the wrong direction. Threat value is how dangerous it is. Combat Value would be whether the mod is going to build it.

The threat value would simply be a sum total of the units the squad is comprised of.

The fastest way to check would boil down to:

Does the unit belong to me? No.
Blow it up.

While it wouldn't add much, or even potentially any threat to my grids, and I wouldn't order a fighter scramble to splatter one bird, if the ground AA, MT"s and flak, got the chance, they'd fire on it.

Nah, I'll pretty much stick with: If it doesn't move reclaim it, if it moves shoot it until it stops moving, then reclaim it.

The problem I ran into, before XP died, was getting the pathfinding routines to acknowledge that the shortest route between two points was through a transport beacon.

I'd have put it up for testing, but it's trapped on the disk with the rest of the rest of the stuff.

Mainly because most RTS's have no strategy involved in their online components, beyond build X amount of Y unit and charge. Everything else is tossed aside for simple speed.

If it's AI related, it's still generally on topic. If not, it doesn't matter anyway. But AF knows the problems involved with trying to remain secret.

I have XP now, with working spring, so I can help with testing if you need it.

One of the big complaints since TA.

Not necessarily. Properly adjusted, it wouldn't try to upgrade until you had sufficient resources.

I'm personally a fan of http://www.tugzip.com because it'll open .zip, .rar, and .7z files as well.

I thought Bots were for people to play games without actually playing them.

This forum could be much improved with a Quick Reply. I wish you'd quit playing with the releases. Every time I get close to something to release, you change versions.

Would it be possible to make the Pathfinder produce way points at the lowest points along a route? So instead of marching across a mountain range, you go through the valley along side it?

Actually, using the main pathfinder, and having the units move from one waypoint to the next in straight lines, as if they were a single unit would be more than sufficient.

As group AI certainly not, but as a part of a Skirmish AI, yes.

I don't know about a massive formation, but a single column wouldn't be difficult, or even two. The path finding is simple enough, because I've proposed it numerous times. A simple hexagon, which detects obstructions in the path. Instead of that convoy though, you'd be better off with a five column ...

On the other side of that coin, on a console there's no need to worry about drivers, no tweaking settings to make it work. And anygame you pick up anywhere in the life span of the console for that console WILL work. You can't take a PC from even '95, and play BF2 on it. But you can take an XboX and ...