Re: PBM design: scenery design

From: sjc@cs.purdue.edu (Steve Chapin)

Date: Tue, 06 Jul 1993 02:06:52 +0000

}} In article <frits.741884767@draconis> frits@cp.tn.tudelft.nl (Frits Kuijlman) writes:
}}
}} I won't even mention the creation of intelligent NPC's which would need
}} huge amounts of AI code to give them some semblance of realism.

That depends on what you mean by a semblance of realism.  Oly had NPCs
that (except for the fact that they were orcs :-) you couldn't discern
from regular characters.

No, they weren't about to pass the Turing test, but they acted just as
intelligently as units directed by many players.  They had a few very
simple rules for generating their actions, which were the same Oly I
orders that players gave to their units.

It would not be difficult to put a decision-making engine in to run
(for example) a thief, or a band of outlaws that attacked weaker
parties and ran from stronger ones.

Remember the Birds of Death!

sjc@cs.purdue.edu                 Steve Chapin                 ...!purdue!sjc
                    Did the right wright write the rites?

"Home is the place where, when you have to go there, They have to take you in."
                (Robert Frost, "The Death of the Hired Man")

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PBM design: scenery design
frits@cp.tn.tudelft.nl (Frits Kuijlman)
Mon, 05 Jul 1993 15:06:07 +0000