The AI knows, “I can summon a demon that can move two steps, and I have an enemy that’s two steps away, so I better do that even though I can summon something that’s more powerful but only moves one step. I’m going to summon the one that can get to my enemy.” So the AI does all those calculations. It looks at if it has multiple damage spells it can cast, it looks at which one will have the greatest effect on the enemies within its range. So it does those things very well. The thing that the AI doesn’t do, is that it doesn’t consider moving and then casting. So it won’t go out and cast Spring on a desert tile to turn it into a grass tile, because it doesn’t understand “I need to move out there and cast a spell”. It only looks at the unit, where it is right now: “Let me look through my spells and see which makes the most sense to use”. From a summoning and damage perspective, it doesn’t know “if I move one step to the north and cast Maelstrom, then I’ll get a better hit and damage more units”. It doesn’t do that right now.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Since the strategy world is pretty barren at the moment, I guess I should think about writing another feature series or something. Maybe work up another board game AAR. In the meantime, here’s another interview with Derek Paxton, the design lead on Fall From Heaven II. On the AI: The AI knows, “I can summon […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[70],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5GFeQ-iA","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1152"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1152\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}