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FreeCol: FreeCol is a turn-based strategy game based on the old game Colonization, and similar to Civilization. The objective of the game is to create an independent nation.
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Developing a bot #106

Open aidiss opened 2 years ago

aidiss commented 2 years ago

I consider developing a bot to play this game. Any tips for doing that? I guess the AI exists in a for non player civs. Would it be possible for AI to play this as the player watches?

wintertime commented 2 years ago

If you change some code you could probably make an AI only game.

mpope042 commented 2 years ago

For testing, I just move the player units into the top right corner and let the AIs run. A full observer player type does not exist, but is probably not that hard to do.

I have speculated as to what would be needed to make an actually good AI/bot. It could be done, just look at what google have done with Starcraft. However I am not google's AI group:-) so I doubt the full ML method is within scope ATM. OTOH, perhaps something that needs less than a basement full of smoking CPUs to train might be possible. The good news is that to do better than the current AI is not a high bar.