You know the #1 suckiest thing about writing AI for me?
It’s that not only do I have to play in cloth map only mode (I run with massive debugging) but I have to run in ugly cloth map mode.
I’m not going to say I hate every single person on this planet. I’m sure there are people living in deserts and jungles who are just fine. I still hate them, mind you. It’s out of principle. So yea, I guess I do hate everything.
Until I am freed from having to play the game like this, I’m going to be one grumpy bastard. You gotta feel kind of bad for Stardock. A real company wouldn’t let one of its devs even post this kind of inanity. But of course, I’m the boss so I can post how annoying it is to play the game at 3fps in cloth map mode.
There’s nothing that can be done. I did GalCiv that way too. People cried. Their tears were delicious and nourishing. But it’s not enough. Not nearly enough.
Hey Frogboy, if you're looking for sympathy you won't find it on this forum.
We want our Beta with AAA+ AI and we want it now!
And why aren't the Ponies Pink? (Got your back Lord Xia!)
I read the title as "I'm a Healer."
Needless to say I thought this post was about Healing Specialization for heroes.
"Haters gonna hate" meme is: ... applicable!
You kids and your fancy color graphics and 3 FPS. In my day, we had to trick the screen into giving us green and red by only lighting up every other pixel. Which we did with "peek" and "poke" statements. The screen updated once a minute. And we were happy, goddamit!
What's wrong with the cloth map? I play that way pretty much exclusively by choice. It's a simpler look and represents things more clearly.
3 FPS is a hassle, though. Don't you guys get to buy fancy machines with company money that should help offset the system resource costs of bugtesting?
The worst part of this is that when it's all done, bloody humans are going to mess it all up.
Can't you guys just be satisfied watching the AI fight each other? Why do people insist on interacting with it and doing crazy weird stuff?
edit: btw, while doing the AI I'm constantly pointing out cheese to Derek because the AI does it first. For instance, outposts initially spread environment which made land tiles fertile. So the AI would build outposts and then cities next to them and cheese their way to domination. Needless to say, that went away.
Can't you selectively compile some modules you aren't debugging in release/with optimizations turned on? For example, compiling the renderer module in release but leaving the AI module in debug.
This is one reason why I choose to have modules compiled as self-contained dlls, then I don't have to deal with missing/multiply-defined symbols when linking in mixed release/debug CRT code in my exe.
Frogboy loved War of Magic before it was released. It didn't fare so well.
Now he hates it. This is a great sign.
Good one, Windexglow!
Cloth map looks interesting to me! Will I be able to play FE on my Eee PC netbook (Intel Atom N450 - only 1 core, 1GB, 1024x600) in this mode?
Don't hate!
Ganhialf, one thing you would need (apart from other system requirements) is a video card with access to Pixel Shader 3 or higher.
Pretty much what 'bama said...
Relias has got to Level 2 before settling?
Maybe should you use my mod ? (it juste replace the old files of parchment map)
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5010946/Elemental/MapParchmentTileWater.zip
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5010946/Elemental/GfxMapParchmentTile.zip
What it looks like :
i think thats point proven isnt it..
btw.. don't most game designers like watching the AI battle the AI? Just how many times have I loaded games like CiV and autoplayed civs against each other to quickly watch the AI build the world from scratch.. fun.
That is a nice map mod. Where can I download that?
Oh... I thought that the cloth map would not require Pixel Shader 3. Thanks anyway.
You can download the files... in my previous message. There's two links, one for the map and one for the water.
Its cool that the AI picked up on the cheese right away.
can you please leave the cloth map mode that you are using for debugging in the game as a feature for us to play with might also help slower end PC's
Cloth map mode should be in the game already (at least it was in WoM).
Will we be able to see AI vs AI contests (i.e. no human player at all). I think that would be very interesting to see sometimes. +1 vote for that to be available in the betas.
Thanks, I thought those were just pictures.
"Will we be able to see AI vs AI contests (i.e. no human player at all). I think that would be very interesting to see sometimes. +1 vote for that to be available in the betas"
+2
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