Regarding the game play (EDITED MAY 15, 2008), you'll see Options

[Bereth Darkides]

I have rewrote this 5 times because I am non too happy with the extreme game balance problem.
Is there anyway to tone down the power and or numbers of the nuclear skeleton warriors I am facing (at 9th-10th lvl) that does not include playing outside of core rules!

HOLY FAK!

You see I really hate having to cheat.

(PS,,, Vlad what were you thinking)?


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This post has been edited by Bereth Darkides: May 15 2008, 07:35 PM

[Baronius]

We currently have no idea how to simulate the intelligence of a human - or indeed a worm - on the best purpose-built parallel-processing hardware, let alone in the Infinity Engine scripting language.

It wouldn't be needed to simulate human intelligence to make powerful enemies in games, including the Infinity Engine games. Artificial intelligence has serious achievements, and these are applied in computer games as well. In case of the IE games, we're just talking aboutt the decisions of managers, developers and/or others.

Including financial decisions (budget, schedule etc.) For example, writing much better AI takes more time and project resources. On top of these, if a game is too hard, weaker players or those who play it for other reasons won't be satisfied. This is profit loss. So creating a difficult game even probably wasn't a goal in advance, or at least, not for the final version (requirements may change during the project).

[DavidW]

We currently have no idea how to simulate the intelligence of a human - or indeed a worm - on the best purpose-built parallel-processing hardware, let alone in the Infinity Engine scripting language.

It wouldn't be needed to simulate human intelligence to make powerful enemies in games, including the Infinity Engine games. Artificial intelligence has serious achievements, and these are applied in computer games as well.

Sure, opponents could be way brighter, and thus way tougher, than the vanilla-game creatures; I'm not denying that (I write AI mods, after all!)

What I am saying is that for an opponent who's the same strength as the party on paper to be a match for them (which they would be in a pen-and-paper RPG) it would require human-level AI (or at least real goal-directed intelligence), and we're nowhere near that. I don't want to knock AI as an academic discipline: it's made great progress, clarified its conceptual territory, and contributed en route to problems ranging from philosophy of mind to missile guidance, but the underlying problem is amazingly hard and we're still scratching at the surface.

This post has been edited by DavidW: Apr 16 2008, 11:01 PM