Fog of war

[cyflo]

hello, I'm a new user of AIWar and I'm creating my first robot. I think it'll be better to add a forg of war behaviour to not display the enemy strategy and keep secrets ;)

[leguims]

I think the fog of war is to give the file ".pyc" instead of ".py", but you right, some strategies could be easy to understand. But it is very funny to see all players and all bugs or mistake !! LOL !

Do you want to launch match and see only your bots ? But if you want to see secret strategy of others, nothing can prevent you to put fog on your warrior and see the opponent.

[cyflo]

I understand the fun to see players errors or not controled behaviours. It can add a lot of pleasure May be it should be activated/desactivated in each robot by code. It'll should allow each player to decide themself If he want a fog of war or not for his robot.

[leguims]

I understand what you want, but can you give more details of each use case. I think it is not so easy to specifies what to do.

For example:

Player 1 is the script of "Cyflo" who wants to hide its ships to other player. Player 2 is the script of "Leguims" who wants to see all the war space.

Cyflo plays on his computer the match : Player 1 Vs Player 2

• Does he see Player 2 ships ?
• If Cyflo modifies the script "Player 1" only on his computer. Does he see Player 2 ships ? Could it be a kind of cheating or none fair-play style ?
• How AIWar can authenticate that Cyflo is launching the match to show him the good ships ?

Leguims plays on his computer the match : Player 1 Vs Player 2

• Does he see Players 1 ships ?
• Does he still have fun to play AIWar ? :'c(

To conclude

The fog of war is not a bad idea, but it probably split the world of player in 2 : Secretive and Exhibitionist

[cyflo]

Hello,

Cyflo plays on his computer the match : Player 1 Vs Player 2

• Does he see Player 2 ships ? => Yes because Player 2 is an exhibitionist
• If Cyflo modifies the script "Player 1" only on his computer. Does he see Player 2 ships ? Could it be a kind of cheating or none fair-play style ? => I don't realy undersant the meaning of this question. The script Player one is My robot,
• How AIWar can authenticate that Cyflo is launching the match to show him the good ships ? => That's an issue AIWar don't know which of both robot is the mine.

Leguims plays on his computer the match : Player 1 Vs Player 2

• Does he see Players 1 ships ? => No because cyflo is a Secretive ;)
• Does he still have fun to play AIWar ? :'c( => Fog of war exist on lot of other games and dont't affect the fun. But you're the expert ;)

[merovingien]

Fog of war is a good feature to add, but it comes with a lot of problems.

First of all : what the fog must hide ? Everything but the ship of the playing team? Or only the ships of the other team? The later case is useless I think, but on the first case, it s.is not easy to debug the script if we do not see anything.

I think the best solution is to activate fog just before publishing a script. In that case, when someone use this script, the program hide every thing but its ships, with the detection radius.

I will try to publish a release with this kind of functionality, and then we will discuss about that.