Future Scenario: AI /take

[REVENGE]

Possible? Load an AI library midgame and have it take control of a player's units?

[imbaczek]

currently not possible; probably doable, but would require mod support (mods need to tell the engine which AI to load when somebody drops.)

[Auswaschbar]

More important is it needs AI support.

[imbaczek]

AIs already support UnitGiven events, so that's not a problem I guess, only need to fake unit transfer.

[hoijui]

yeah, i see no big problem in this.
we already discussed that once.
game would be paused, ai loaded, all units be added to it with UnitGiven, then unpause.
so AI or AI Interface wise, ther would not have to be anything added, i just dont know, how much would have t ochange engine internally, if one team changes from human to AI controll, or i a new team would be created mid-game. but that should be solvable too, if it was a problem.
we could first make the command like this:

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/aitake [shortName] [version] [teamToTake]

shortName nad version(optional) woudl specify the skirmish AI to use
which would not need mod support, and later mod support could be added simply by making the shortName optional, when the mod supplies a default shortName.

[imbaczek]

I see one problem with anything other than synced LuaAIs - they need to work on only one machine, and when that drops, the whole process has to be repeated. You can't count on the host to load the AI because it can be an autohost.

[zwzsg]

Possible? Load an AI library midgame and have it take control of a player's units?

Totally possible with Lua AIs.

[hoijui]

if the AI host drops, the same should happen to that team like when a player drops -> units beeing available for take. then a player could take them or someone else could issue an /aitake. autohosts could have a setting to auto-aitake a dropped team after x seconds.
... hmm, i just repeated what imbaczek wrote, mor ebloated kind of :D
the thing is.. i do not know where you see a problem in this.

[imbaczek]

/aitake is a solution, yes. I was thinking about scenarios where /aitake is implicit.

[REVENGE]

Actually, this brought to mind another idea. Would it be possible to transfer hosting in the scenario that the host loses his connection?

[imbaczek]

yes, the plan to do this exists for quite some time, but as usual it needs someone to do the typing.