AI

[Gregoshi]

I ran across an article on S2TW's "Sun Tzu" AI claims by an AI programmer. The general gist is that it's all marketing fluff because the basic elements of Sun Tzu's Art of War are already used by nearly all AI designers. So, essentially, CA is just claiming that they're doing the same thing that everyone else has already been doing for a long time. Nothing new but the marketing.

Yeah, in MW2, I remember seeing those birds flying over the trees where the sniper was.[/sarcasm]

Some good points in the article and maybe the Sun Tzu claim for S2TW is fluff - or maybe not. Any game wanting to use Sun Tzu also has to have the elements built-in environmentally for the AI to act upon his "common sense" - at least in some of the cases. The birds I mentioned in sarcasm being one such point. The game requires more than just AI programming to utilize Sun Tzu effectively. While some of Sun Tzu's rules are generic, others are more applicable and match perfectly to the older forms of warfare such as STW/MTW/RTW. And, while one can read Sun Tzu and say "yeah, no duh!" and roll one's eyes at the obviousness of it all, how many of us actively apply these rules to our battles (in history and in game) aside from the most generic of them? Knowing them is one thing, using them is something else. Same would hold to the AI/game programmers.

Besides, I think we have a host of STW players here aside from me who might contest the author's claims that everybody does it in there games.

Er, sorry if this comes off a bit snippy. Didn't mean for it to but it probably is.