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Re: Player assistant "AI"

Wed, 15 March 2006 09:58

mazda

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Kotk wrote on Wed, 08 March 2006 13:49

For one example to think about:
1) Draw scanner radius circle around all unscouted planets.
2) measure sweetness of each spot within 81 ly radius to your scout (by how many circles overlap there). Its ~20K spots. Laughing

3) choose some sweetest spot and go there.
4) remove the circles for scouted places and back to 2)

To make it more challenging.
What about the route aspect of the planning ?

In essence your algorithm is trying to determine the "best spot" to go to for each turn.
And each turn is calculated with no reference to how it affects future turns.
e.g you may be able to scout 6 planets this turn, but that leaves you scouting 2 next turn and 1 the turn after.
Whereas scouting only 4 this turn may let you scout 3 next turn and 4 the turn after.

To make it even more complicated Smile

the true objective is to maximise the number of planets scouted (perhaps even all planets in a given area) in the minimum time ***(see below).
That is not achieved by maximising the number of planets scouted each turn.

In a real game we make such differences irrelevant for ourselves by setting targets like "I want all planets, except LGM3, scouted in 15 years".
If the furthest planet is 10 years away at Warp 9 then that target is always achievable by building the appropriate number of scouts.
Whether we build 21 or 23 scouts to achieve it seems to matter little in the context of a real game.
If we wanted to scout them all within 12 years then we'd simply build more scouts.
As long as we can achieve our self-imposed target then pursuit of the best solution is close to pointless.

*** In a real game what is the best solution ?
One ideal is to scout all planets in the shortest time.
That is quantifiable and measurable.
However if we want to build our lovely factories then we may decide that taking 5 years longer and building 10 less scouts is a far better use of resources.

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		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
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		Re: Player assistant "AI" By: Kotk on Tue, 07 March 2006 14:08
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		Re: Player assistant "AI" By: m.a@stars on Wed, 08 March 2006 09:41
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		Re: Player assistant "AI" By: m.a@stars on Thu, 09 March 2006 04:16
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		Re: Player assistant "AI" By: m.a@stars on Thu, 09 March 2006 04:07
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		Re: Player assistant "AI" By: mazda on Wed, 15 March 2006 09:58
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