Genetic AI Project
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GoodGame
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I think option #2 is a cool idea, but it's not worth your time if you're not getting paid (unless you're working on a Ph'D in this topic). It's probably not an easy mod, plus the AI project would have to start over from scratch honestly. Perhaps you could try to offer your services to Firaxis to get some sponsorship on this? 
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EDIT: Anyone having trouble running 0.33? I had this running beautifully for a day then it died. Did a total uninstall of CIV4 including RegCleaner, and did a Reinstall with 1.61 patch and I can't get it to load the AI storage menu (the one that replaces Dawn of Man screen). I've placed the AIDATA##.txt everywhere and it doesn't work.
Question---you mean quite simply--don't add a single variable within a set, if you run duel sized map?
Does that mean run the same map type, or is Shuffle preferred. I've been doing a set with Duel, Normal speed, and Terra maps, with the default of 2 player slots. Will that skew even worse than normal for Duel-size, than if it was Shuffle? I notice that Terra tends to be short on real estate early in the game, and my one personal test game with an AI trounced it quite badly, although it did a good job of expanding in its corner.
Question---you mean quite simply--don't add a single variable within a set, if you run duel sized map?
Does that mean run the same map type, or is Shuffle preferred. I've been doing a set with Duel, Normal speed, and Terra maps, with the default of 2 player slots. Will that skew even worse than normal for Duel-size, than if it was Shuffle? I notice that Terra tends to be short on real estate early in the game, and my one personal test game with an AI trounced it quite badly, although it did a good job of expanding in its corner.
it would be awesome
What might be good is if the AI were highly accessible to amateur modding. It could be a game in itself where you script an AI and see how it does or how you do against it. There could be a whole forum for players to share AIs like there are for Unit Art and Civilizations and such. There could even be a play mode where you don't play yourself you can just run an AI, but you can mod the AI on the fly.
Craterus22
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but this project was making progress... its a shame the guy stopped.
Another idea is if you wanted to do an experiment like Great Apple was doing, instead of having one AI and testing that, you could have muliple AIs per dll, one per leader (basically copies of every block concerned with AI behavior, but running only if they test positive for a particular leaderhead), and test them in big groups on autoplay. Maybe even have a separate program for generating source code for them by randomly varying certain things, whatever lends itself to random variability. Or even integrate the AI code generator into the game program and truly have random personalities generated at game start (randomness factor adjustable from 0 to some high number, with zero meaning no chance of non standard ai). Then if you wanted to you could have successfull random personalities automatically recorded in every game and set to recur occassionally (depending on how random the game was). And maybe even send themselves in to a database..
TheLadiesOgre
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If we got this project back on its feet again, couldn't we improve the BetterAI by using TGA's idea? Basically take the work from the BetterAI project, try to have it improve itself and winnow any weakness found therein?
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