Ok... I was thinking what if in starcraft 2, you can make your own custom AI of which you could set which priorities it would have and if they would ally with you temporarily to kill a stronger opponent (ie a FFA match)? Some of those priorities could be how well he defends his base, how well he expands, attacks, scouts or chooses the biggest threat. I think that the SC1 AI were kinda simple with 4 difficulties (not including the town setting). So, IF you are able to make your own AI, what would you make it do?
*sigh* warcraft 3 editor *ultrasigh* You could already do that in the Warcraft 3 editor. Each unit type has its own danger priority number. Along with ai build priorities, you can make just about any tactic for the enemy you want. Even create different profiles for each race if you want. Just takes a lot of time to do. I am sure this will be expanded in the Starcraft 2 editor. But I doubt that we will see ai making an alliance. It responds to the current situation. It is very, very hard to let ai predict stuff properly.
Yeah it's been done already in WC3. So I'm sure it's already in the SC2 editor. If you want more precise actions such as aggro on healer, you would mix the AI editor with triggers.
I hope they will extend that a little with some presets. I hate typing up all those strings. Edit: Why did you name your pet Todd...? -_-'
Thanks, i haven't played WC3. The only blizzard game i played was starcraft... untill SC2 comes out !
[ot] Lol, not that big of a problem. Meh, thanks anyway. [/ot] But this is quite a good thread. The team ai is extremely important when practicing against a cpu. They need to share units and watch what the ally made so they can compensate. A cpu sharing recources with another cpu would also be pretty awesome. That could not be done in warcraft 3 as fas as I know.
I read on a Star Craft wiki that the editor is capable of c++ coding or something. I believe this means we will be able to create any sort of AI that we want. Its just gonna take a lot of work. Thank god we are getting this editor.
I actually programmed some basic ai for the Homeworld 2 FX mod -hwfx.galaxygaming.net- That was a lot like C. It's not as bad as it seems. Easy to understand with some tutorials, but it required a lot of typing. -Since most of it is custom for every unit when it comes to tactics.- This should be great for serious modders.
I use this subject to bring back news about the AI. According to Cydra blizzard poster, there is currently 5 AI difficulty mode (Beginner, Easy, Normal, Hard and Insane.) Here is the blue post saying more about this : http://forums.battle.net/thread.html?topicId=16409621577&postId=164080150508&sid=3000#4
hehe should we make a sticky or something with a list of the functionality of the wc3 editor? It seems like there are only 3 of us here who even played wc3 hehe.
