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Can you imagine how difficult it is to decide which NPC has which experience, link every possible experience you want to include together (likelihood of experiencing a more specific B after experiencing A)?we need a character editor like EVE Online
There you can select different hair, clothing, skin, eye color, ...
I especially like some clothes from eve, but also the background for their avatars.
If this gets displayed next to messages, players will get the feeling to be represented ingame
Just imagine the chat displays the avatar of the latest speaker...
Even if we don't have NPCs, just give the bord computer an image (the floating ghost is Carabatcho):
A crew:
Talk to the engineer to get more information about the use of logic or which system is damaged since you last left build mode or last saved a blueprint.
Your engineers may also have repair beams for RP purposes (middle and middle-right)
The guy to left really likes eating. Especially while talking over com.
He may give you some bounty hunter quest or tells you somebody has a claim on your ship :p
Click images for more details
Click image for more detailsThere are 1000+ possible experiences.
((Best example: Love = desire to have a best-friend + desire to be not alone + a natural drug + search for acceptance / confirmation + ... so many other factors to consider)
- with enough of them you lose track where these emotions comes from. Especially if it is built by experiences before your forth birthday)
The wish to kill somebody is usually suppressed by you feeling with peoples which are left without somebody they love. You naturally project this situation onto yourself.
But it can also be suppressed by the knowledge that "if everybody does it, society as a whole would fail and you will fall back to stone-age and slavery with all around you".
Or by fear of consequences (direct by law, indirect by how you appear to your environment)
On the opposite there are factors which increase the probability for somebody becoming violent.
Violent environments, a metal damage, ...
Some strategy-game AIs use a lot of (here LUA) code (can be seen here: https://github.com/Tarendai/Shard/tree/master/data/ai for GPL-licensed springrts.com)
"Supreme Commander FA" had code to check requirements grouped in code files and decisions like this:
And was similar to an interpreted language, interpreted by the Event-Handler (written in LUA).
"Supreme Commander FA" had code to check requirements grouped in code files and decisions like this:
Code:
Event A{
weight = 0..1
requirements = name(group x).name(function x) & ...
unlocks = {event x, y, z}
modifiers = name(group x).name(function x) & ...
actions = name(group x).name(function x) & ...
}
...Based on my experiences, I would use a tag-system.
Whenever an event occurs, tags of that event look into a dictionary to find linked/similar tags.
Events are then checked
The same tag-system I would use for a character's memory.
It will look for experiences with similar tags and stop after 5. Old and more trivial experiences are on bottom of the list/database.
Experiences have a chance to trigger. When triggered it could move to the bottom of possible experiences (or a pointer points to the next one) to make all characters have different.
Of no one of the earlier triggers, an experience may trigger twice in a row, but that is more unlikely. Thus the same event may trigger different experiences based on a characters memory, association and character or intensity of the exp (avg: multiply intensity with probability /2).
AI will behave more intelligent the more events are linked, the more are processed per NPC, the more experiences they already gathered, and the deeper the recursion level is set and the more unique possible experiences allow them to get.
By adding events, we could make this system better. Not one, but many are able to do this.
Don't forget that we humans need 10..20 years to learn proper math and programming. We have 2 parents, teachers and other poeples around us helping us to learn.
Events are then checked
- against their very general pre-requirements which have to be met (like environment, character-attributes like passiv, lazy, hyper-active, ...),
- against their requirement of character-attributes (intelligence, strength, courage) created by previous events.
- and have a chance to trigger.
The same tag-system I would use for a character's memory.
It will look for experiences with similar tags and stop after 5. Old and more trivial experiences are on bottom of the list/database.
Experiences have a chance to trigger. When triggered it could move to the bottom of possible experiences (or a pointer points to the next one) to make all characters have different.
Of no one of the earlier triggers, an experience may trigger twice in a row, but that is more unlikely. Thus the same event may trigger different experiences based on a characters memory, association and character or intensity of the exp (avg: multiply intensity with probability /2).
AI will behave more intelligent the more events are linked, the more are processed per NPC, the more experiences they already gathered, and the deeper the recursion level is set and the more unique possible experiences allow them to get.
By adding events, we could make this system better. Not one, but many are able to do this.
Don't forget that we humans need 10..20 years to learn proper math and programming. We have 2 parents, teachers and other poeples around us helping us to learn.
