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I think it's Artificial Intelligence.
It's what plays the countrie's you don't play.
It's what plays the countrie's you don't play.
Generally we use the term "AI" for the computer code that controls the computer-ran countries.
Here are a coupla more. 
Not so many concerning EU, but a lot of general ones used in here.
http://www.europa-universalis.com/forum/showthread.php?threadid=6105
Not so many concerning EU, but a lot of general ones used in here.
http://www.europa-universalis.com/forum/showthread.php?threadid=6105
To simplify because english is not your first language:
Think of playing Chess on a computer. Your oppenent is the A.I.
Think of playing Chess on a computer. Your oppenent is the A.I.
which just goes to show that for a small rules system progrmming effective AI is possible, but with a larger set of variables it becomes difficult enough that even a complicated AI can't play terribly well
MKJ may disagree
Heretic
MKJ may disagree
Heretic
I'd like to say that your AI (with a few modifications to colonial & target fields) has done an excellent job of winning the HYW for France. See here.here.Originally posted by Mad King James
I disagree
On the issue of Artificial Intelligence
Okay, real A.I. is when the computer can learn from our human action patterns. And so to act like you, or give an intelligent response.
Example from EU2:
If you constantly attack during the winter, and your first troops consists mainly of cavalry then of a second wave artillery on spring time, then the EU-AI will not be able to produce the most effective defensive stategy, (though it can simulate pretty well) because it cannot learn your from your patterns.
Conclusion: It's just ordinary code, not a true A.I. code.
Ordinary pseudocode can go like this:
A.I. pseudocode goes something like this: (generic code)
And the latter was not implemented in EU2.
Okay, real A.I. is when the computer can learn from our human action patterns. And so to act like you, or give an intelligent response.
Example from EU2:
If you constantly attack during the winter, and your first troops consists mainly of cavalry then of a second wave artillery on spring time, then the EU-AI will not be able to produce the most effective defensive stategy, (though it can simulate pretty well) because it cannot learn your from your patterns.
Conclusion: It's just ordinary code, not a true A.I. code.
Ordinary pseudocode can go like this:
Code:
# RND: random choice between options.
# X: human player id.
FOR all players X DO
IF cb==true and MilStrenght >= Player(X)+Allies THEN
DoW Player(X)
# The winter problem:
IF month > Nov THEN
Return troops from siege RND assault.
ELSE
Add more troops to siege RND check other provs siegestatus.
IF month == (Dec TO Mar) AND player X sieges_me THEN
Form the counteroffensive army.
Wait till spring.A.I. pseudocode goes something like this: (generic code)
Code:
# Consider a mulitplayer game of 3 humans, incl. one EU-robot.
# The two others thinks he is a human somewhere
# at the internet..... How can they tell?
# AI_DB: A logic database consisting of tracked human actions.
# Weakness_exploits: an essential algorithm determining
#computer strategy. Returns highest rated weaknesses
#of each player.
# DoW_check: an important algorithm checking CB, strength
#patterns of player warfare etc. Returns a DoW, or nil.
#game startup:
FOR all game_instances DO
Load AI_DB
Randomizer = disabled
PlayerTracking = Input to AI_DB
#in game example:
FOR all HumanPlayers DO
player1.weakness1 = Lookup AI_DB.record(1,1)
player2.weakness1 = Lookup AI_DB.record(2,1)
player1.warpattern1 = Lookup AI_DB.record(1,2)
player2.warpattern1 = Lookup AI_DB.record(2,2)
IF player1.weakness1 > player2.weakness1 THEN
DoW_check player1.warpattern1
Weakness_exploits ( player1, top_10_weak)
ELSE
DoW_check player2.warpattern1
Weakness_exploits ( player2, top_10_weak)
# Where '>' can be replaced by a generic comparator.
# And to check through weakness2, and weakness3, etc.And the latter was not implemented in EU2.
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Why is the code black? How do I make it white?
Thank you for the tags, Castelion!
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Re: On the issue of Artificial Intelligence
DO you have any concept of what this game would cost you if it implemented a multi hidden layered neural net. Not to mention the new hardware you would have to buy.
You are talking about hard AI vs soft AI.
DO you have any concept of what this game would cost you if it implemented a multi hidden layered neural net. Not to mention the new hardware you would have to buy.
It's quite a big leap to go from that pseudo-code to actual source code that works. There are probably also some major run-time problems in trying to do AI reasonably well for over a hundred countries at once.
But Petrarca I think that Burgundy and England probbly also used the MKJ ai. France winning the HYW is probably more due to the ferocity=yes setting, the fact the war is fought on Frencch soil, and the fact that other countries jumped on the Burgundy/English alliance.
I am not really sold to MKJ's ai, I still see it do some stupid stuff. I guess I have to watch a lot of ai movement with both ai's before I can make a good conclusion, but that's quite boring (and frustating!)
Yes, the DB-lookup would take ages with our current technology.
An open DB-file with AI-info could consume endless of RAM, as becoming more "intelligent".
And implementation in a specified code would look quite different. To write such code, one should have a generic algorithm to begin with. The point was to illustrate how a computer can learn from your interaction with it.
Another way to work with AI is to let the code become self changeable. Thus, the program can create new code based on inputs over time. To achieve this, one should also make polymorphic and generic code. That would mean to act with "many faces" and being weakly bounded. We can call that "soft" since there should be very little hard-coded
decisions, rules, and so on.
Well, that's subject to research right now and would not yet be suitable to a strategy game like EU2.
Just to simulate an AI,
is the most efficient for computer games in our time...
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