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crakerz
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Joined: 17 Sep 2003
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Location: California Bay Area
 Post Posted: Wed Feb 25, 2004 7:40 pm  Post subject: The Overmind Secret
OK, the secret's out! I had suspected this, but now I know for sure:

You can pick each side's intelligence:
Human (you)
Computer (normal default)
Computer Overmind
Computer Neutral

I was testing a new level's terrain. I had a small enemy base built, with some bullpups, and a few guards of my own to explore with. No triggers, no unit groups, nothing. I did select Overmind AI.

Imagine my surprise to see the base building Units! It appeared to be random, but it was building a good assortment. It didn't attack my guards until I got too close, though. So, I added a few structures of my own and recompiled. Within a few minutes, I was being attacked by the enemy!

You can still command the units, but they are smarter, and more aggressive. Not quite a skirmish mode, but this may save some people from getting too bogged down in the programming.

Hope I'm not the last to discover this :oops:
scottlu
WI Founder


Joined: 15 Aug 2003
Posts: 1773
 Post Posted: Wed Feb 25, 2004 11:41 pm  
Overmind is a very weak AI we used for testing early in the development of Warfare. I can't even gaurantee how well it works now, so I don't recommend using it for anything.
Verdagon
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Joined: 05 Oct 2003
Posts: 1047
Location: San Luis Obispo, CA
 Post Posted: Thu Feb 26, 2004 4:48 pm  
....you expect us to pass up an ai...
lol...

do you mean that it's too weak, or its buggy and might crash?
scottlu
WI Founder


Joined: 15 Aug 2003
Posts: 1773
 Post Posted: Thu Feb 26, 2004 5:42 pm  
Yes to all of those ;)

I will remove it in the editor so nobody uses it. It hasn't been production tested and is not worth supporting.
Verdagon
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Joined: 05 Oct 2003
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Location: San Luis Obispo, CA
 Post Posted: Thu Feb 26, 2004 7:12 pm  
Are you going to make a new AI?
crakerz
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Joined: 17 Sep 2003
Posts: 353
Location: California Bay Area
 Post Posted: Sat Feb 28, 2004 4:31 pm  
scottlu wrote:
I will remove it in the editor so nobody uses it. It hasn't
been production tested and is not worth supporting.


:oops: (me and my big mouth.....) :oops:
Verdagon
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Joined: 05 Oct 2003
Posts: 1047
Location: San Luis Obispo, CA
 Post Posted: Sat Feb 28, 2004 4:46 pm  
YeAh, YoU aNd YoUr BiG mOuTh. GoOd JoB.

JK lol... jk...

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