General AI Meta issue

[joulupunikki]

General AI

Motivation

For single player, decent AI for all factions is a must. For multiplayer, reasonably well working non-house AIs are very important.

Implementation Directives

• AIs should cheat as little as possible:
  1. No extra money
  2. No extra resources
  3. No extra units
  4. No extra techs
  5. Honor visibility rules
• AIs should be modular/pluggable: take as input a Game object (with a faction being the NEXT faction), return as output a Game object with a turn completed for faction NEXT
• AIs should be modular/hierarchical with separated functionality
  1. Conquest of enemy cities
  2. Reconnaissance of unknown territories
  3. Transportation of ground units between planets/continents
  4. Patrol of owned territories
  5. Research priorities
  6. Building units
  7. Building cities
  8. Diplomatic relations matrix

     Estimated work

  9. Full House AI
     • Difficulty: unknown, university research level problem ?
     • Size: unknown
  10. Non-house AI
      • Difficulty: moderate/hard
      • Size: medium