Recent content by NikG

No matter how you see the current world, that food doesnt dictate our population, but certainly much of the human history it did. Right up until the industrial revolution. Actually it is well established that new and better farming tools/knowledge/crops/etc. resulted in an increase in the...

For a reallife example, see 1500-1600 Spain. After the conquest of the new world, the spanish marked flood with gold, and inflation just skyrocket. So a direct convert from "gold mine(d)" -> "gold (cash)", would make inflation rise, while a more natural way of keeping it away from the cashing...

Actually this is not a mod per se, instead it will be incooporated into one big total conversion that I am working on. However at the point of creation/start of thread, I were just toying and playing around with the abilities of the SDK. However alot of time has gone since then, and I have...

Well a quick comment: Yes, a neural network could be used. An experiment where only AI vs. AI, no human involvement. It would be an unsupervised learning algorithm of some sort. Maybe we should even have more than one. Actually one for each of the layer of the hierarchical layered AI, because...

Well I still believe we should try and implement a hierarchical layered AI. But the problem with optimizing pure numbers, is that it can get stuck at a local optimum. Of course having a good AI should (in theory) be better than having a less good one. The problem is still just that these numbers...

Or it could be seen as a brilliant military leader, did outmanoeuvre your silly drunk horse archers… ;)

Well okay, I may have started something that I shouldn’t have done... :blush: I can't quite follow you here TGA, do you mind explain it more detail? (I refer to genome as an AI that needs to be evaluated/tested) 1 game with 18 different genomes(or AI players) takes how long...

A side note: It is hard to find very good sites describing AL in detail. The best would be to buy some books (Amazon have plenty), and/or program some youself. My knowledge about the field, mostly come from books I have bought and by programming a wide range myself (however only at hobby...

Most of the field in artificial life is largely somewhat interchangeable. Originally they had distinct meanings and uses, however with all the progress in the field, it became similar, and the even the real difference is hard to tell (actually I cannot categorize one precisely). Most often...

EP is evolutionary programming and GP is genetic programming. We even have EA, evolutionary algorithm. Computer scientist just love acronyms... :) But about the boring job. Well it might not be so boring. Actually it would just be like written one of those stories, just more precise and...

Glad you like my ideas Lord Olleus. And I think that it would be absolute amazing if someone would do the experiment you are proposing (which I really like). Actually it could just be a small map with 3 or 4 civs, with the quick option. The posting in, we could analyze this together.

Sorry for being so inactive in the here, having a huge project at school and exams as well. However when it is finished (around next week), I will be able to contribute more. About genetic algorithms is an interesting approach. Having a huge interest in artificial life my self and a bit...

It is not in python, and some of it resides in the SDK. However not all the code is in the SDK and I believe that the "rest" resides in the exe or some other DLL file.

Well. It might be possible, so if you succed I will be very impressed and dont kill me then... ;) I will look into it again.

Nope, that is what I already have done.