Fri May 24 2002 15:18:
Mike is an evil genius (this is from a brainstorming email relating to the game):
apply the principles of
judo: if your problem is coming up with an AI system for a team of
magicians, you should throw more magiciains at the problem. If you had a
team of, say, five magicians, you would have to deal with a lot of
collaboration, dialog, and eventualy team spellcasting. if you had say,
sixty magicians per team, they would of course be following a set of rules,
regulations an procedures that evolved/mutated from something useful into a
beuracratic nightmare that ensures very little ever gets done. In other
words, you would be the United States Senate. Now you can simply deflect
user interaction into a bunch of procedural red herrings, and not have to
worry about writing and AI system, because no Intelligence will come into
play.
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