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Re: Player assistant "AI"

Wed, 08 March 2006 00:48

Madman

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m.a@stars wrote on Tue, 07 March 2006 22:37

Sounds good. I've been meaning for a long time to at least try creating optimal scout routes out of nil. Not exactly easy, tho, even if you don't have penscanning. Evil or Very Mad

This is a variation of the 'Travelling Salesman Problem'. A google search will provide lots of material.

Short version: it's NP-complete (solution time for optimal path increases exponentially with the number of Stars), but it should be possible to find a 'good' solution.

One wrinkle is that the fuel/time costs and the various breakpoints (36/49/64/81 etc.) make the travel costs very non-Euclidean, although the triangle inequality still holds. This causes some non-local effects that aren't in the intial TSP - costing an extra year by splitting an 81 year jump into a 36 and a 54 year jump may save enough fuel to save two or more years later on.

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		Player assistant "AI" By: wumpus on Sat, 04 March 2006 16:54
		Re: BattleSim with arbitrary tech By: m.a@stars on Sun, 05 March 2006 04:40
		Re: BattleSim with arbitrary tech By: wumpus on Sun, 05 March 2006 06:18
		Re: BattleSim with arbitrary tech By: Kotk on Mon, 06 March 2006 01:25
		Re: BattleSim with arbitrary tech By: m.a@stars on Mon, 06 March 2006 04:10
		Re: BattleSim with arbitrary tech By: Kotk on Mon, 06 March 2006 05:24
		Re: BattleSim with arbitrary tech By: m.a@stars on Mon, 06 March 2006 06:29
		Re: BattleSim with arbitrary tech By: Kotk on Mon, 06 March 2006 04:43
		Re: BattleSim with arbitrary tech By: m.a@stars on Mon, 06 March 2006 06:22
		Re: BattleSim with arbitrary tech By: Kotk on Mon, 06 March 2006 11:10
		Re: BattleSim with arbitrary tech By: m.a@stars on Mon, 06 March 2006 11:41
		Re: BattleSim with arbitrary tech By: BlueTurbit on Mon, 06 March 2006 11:52
		Re: BattleSim with arbitrary tech By: m.a@stars on Mon, 06 March 2006 12:03
		Re: BattleSim with arbitrary tech By: BlueTurbit on Mon, 06 March 2006 12:18
		Re: BattleSim with arbitrary tech By: m.a@stars on Tue, 07 March 2006 04:16
		Re: BattleSim with arbitrary tech By: m.a@stars on Mon, 06 March 2006 06:03
		Re: BattleSim with arbitrary tech By: wumpus on Mon, 06 March 2006 12:43
		Re: BattleSim with arbitrary tech By: m.a@stars on Tue, 07 March 2006 04:25
		Re: Player assistant "AI" By: joseph on Mon, 06 March 2006 17:06
		Re: Player assistant "AI" By: m.a@stars on Tue, 07 March 2006 04:37
		Re: Player assistant "AI" By: Kotk on Tue, 07 March 2006 14:25
		Re: Player assistant "AI" By: joseph on Tue, 07 March 2006 17:05
		Re: Player assistant "AI" By: Kotk on Tue, 07 March 2006 19:43
		Re: Player assistant "AI" By: m.a@stars on Wed, 08 March 2006 04:26
		Re: Player assistant "AI" By: m.a@stars on Wed, 08 March 2006 04:22
		Re: Player assistant "AI" By: Madman on Wed, 08 March 2006 00:48
		Re: Player assistant "AI" By: m.a@stars on Wed, 08 March 2006 04:33
		Re: Player assistant "AI" By: NingunOtro on Mon, 06 March 2006 21:22
		Re: Player assistant "AI" By: m.a@stars on Tue, 07 March 2006 04:44
		Re: Player assistant "AI" By: Kotk on Tue, 07 March 2006 14:08
		Re: Player assistant "AI" By: m.a@stars on Wed, 08 March 2006 04:17
		Re: Player assistant "AI" By: Kotk on Wed, 08 March 2006 08:49
		Re: Player assistant "AI" By: m.a@stars on Wed, 08 March 2006 09:41
		Re: Player assistant "AI" By: Kotk on Wed, 08 March 2006 13:37
		Re: Player assistant "AI" By: joseph on Wed, 08 March 2006 16:54
		Re: Player assistant "AI" By: m.a@stars on Thu, 09 March 2006 04:16
		Re: Player assistant "AI" By: Madman on Thu, 16 March 2006 06:45
		Re: Player assistant "AI" By: Kotk on Thu, 16 March 2006 12:40
		Re: Player assistant "AI" By: PricklyPea on Thu, 16 March 2006 12:49
		Re: Player assistant "AI" By: NingunOtro on Thu, 16 March 2006 19:26
		Re: Player assistant "AI" By: m.a@stars on Thu, 09 March 2006 04:07
		Re: Player assistant "AI" By: Kotk on Thu, 09 March 2006 08:16
		Re: Player assistant "AI" By: m.a@stars on Thu, 09 March 2006 12:04
		Re: Player assistant "AI" By: mazda on Wed, 15 March 2006 09:58
		Re: Player assistant "AI" By: m.a@stars on Wed, 15 March 2006 10:44

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