CPU Player Upgrades

[Smiling Buddha]

Surely it wouldn't be hard at all to tell the CPU players to group their silos around their main population centres, their radar around their silos, their ships in smaller (non mixed) groups, to leave an alliance if being targeted, and to magnum launch silos/subs/bombers?

[KingAl]

You'll notice the 5th option over here is to that effect. What I'd be more interested in seeing is support for player-designed AIs, which would allow people to create AIs to whatever specifications they'd like (assuming they had the know-how, of course).

[Church]

You'll notice the 5th option over here is to that effect. What I'd be more interested in seeing is support for player-designed AIs, which would allow people to create AIs to whatever specifications they'd like (assuming they had the know-how, of course).

I wouldn't mind seeing something like that myself. It could be a useful training tool to prepare for a game where you know who you'll be facing, like in a tournament (you could set up AI opponents to approximate the playing styles of your opponents in the real game)

[KingAl]

(you could set up AI opponents to approximate the playing styles of your opponents in the real game)

Why am I now imagining a Defcon based Turing test?

[Smiling Buddha]

What I'm saying is that the AI is pitifully poor, and that it probably would only take a few simple 'rules' to make the AI far more proficient; whereas the other options in the poll would probably take a lot more time and effort.

[xander]

What I'm saying is that the AI is pitifully poor, and that it probably would only take a few simple 'rules' to make the AI far more proficient; whereas the other options in the poll would probably take a lot more time and effort.

On the other hand, IV have said, from the start, that Defcon is meant to be a multiplayer game. You aren't supposed to play with AIs unless you have no other choice. Thus, if IV have the time to either make the AI better, or make multiplayer better, their focus is going to be on multiplayer.

xander

[Smiling Buddha]

You aren't supposed to play with AIs unless you have no other choice.

This happens in a significant portion of the games I play, due to players dropping.

[PsychicKid]

Or if you just want a stree-free match where you can freely cream the enemy into submission without fear of a drop, flaming, or other crap that human players contribute.