MrCJ

Hey welcome MrCJ.. not sure what you mean "the AI Subforum seemed to be pretty quiet the last couple of years" when there has been alot of activity even in recent weeks. If anything, you understand LUA -- our primary DoW1 AI scripting language? Both Larkin and Arkhan are our prime AI devs and we're testing internally AI v3.20 (going amazing well actually).

Yeh the LUA syntax is pretty straight forward, I did some work in it for some World Of Warcraft addons a while back. The only problem I am having at the moment is locating a copy of Soulstorm (I went travelling shortly after the release of Dark Crusade and haven't had a chance to catch up yet).

In the mean time I'll try extracting the .ai files and getting myself up to speed on the current release

-CJ


EDIT: I was initially distracted by the DoW Misc AI Bin, and missed that most of the skirmish discussions were happening here lol

Hi Zenoth I feel your pain :/

Although I am nothing to do with the project, and haven't looked through the code I am pretty certain that this is not an intended feature, and is more likely to be a manifestation of a different behaviour that was not prevented against.

While it is relatively easy to make an AI stronger by cheating, the whole point is to not make it look like it is cheating, so as to perpetuate the illusion it is a player you are facing and plays like that just shatter the illusion immediately.



Anyway on to my real post, I am an AI graduate looking to break into games AI (aren't we all?) and was wondering if there was anything I could do to help contribute to the DoW Skirmish AI? I remember playing against it a long long time ago and being really impressed by the micro management of the commanders especially.

I don't know if this is the right place to post about it, or whether I should just PM the devs directly, but the AI Subforum seemed to be pretty quiet the last couple of years :/

Thanks
CJ