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Tue, 08 March 2011 17:47

JMich

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	// THE FOUR (4) POSSIBLE ALERT STATUSES ARE:
	// GREEN - No one seen, no suspicious noise heard, go about regular duties
	// YELLOW - Suspicious noise was heard personally or radioed in by buddy
	// RED - Either saw opponents in person, or definite contact had been radioed
	// BLACK - Currently has one or more opponents in sight

How the AI reacts depends on what state the soldier is currently in. If the soldier is on green and hears a noise, he will (usually) move to investigate, if he is on yellow he has a chance (25% to 65%, depending on orders and attitude) of radioing the noise, if on red he will turn towards the noise and go prone. There is also the "Most Important Noise", which I'm not sure if it's the closest, or the loudest, or if it can tell the difference between a footstep, an explosion, a scream and a shot.

On the borg mentality, there is a chance (again depending on orders and attitudes) that if the soldier knows some enemy positions that his allies do not, he will radio the contact, but how often do we let the enemy enough time to radio in? Usually, only if there are 5+ soldiers, and we cannot kill them all in 1 turn. Same thing also explains the suppression and blind shooting (or lack of).

Finally, the movement mode of the soldiers depends once again on orders and attitude, a cunning soldier for example is more propable to move crouched than an aggressive one. Also, whenever the situation changes (enemy sighted, noise heard, better cover in view), the merc (pc/militia/soldier/civilian) has to reevaluate his/her options, and decide again whether he/she should continue or do something else. This is the reason for the back and forth, since the soldier moves around the corner, sees your pc and has no cover. Best cover is behind the corner, so he/she moves back to cover. Next turn, the soldier again has an idea of where your merc is, but no definite answer, so if he/she goes to look, the same thing will happen.

Hope this helps clarify a few things, and I will suggest you take a look at the code as well, the comments make it easy enough to understand.

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		Re: Learning how the AI works By: wanne (aka RoWa21) on Tue, 22 February 2011 10:40
		Re: Learning how the AI works By: MorgluM on Tue, 22 February 2011 15:30
		Re: Learning how the AI works By: wanne (aka RoWa21) on Tue, 22 February 2011 15:52
		Re: Learning how the AI works By: MorgluM on Tue, 22 February 2011 15:57
		Re: Learning how the AI works By: SpaceViking on Tue, 22 February 2011 17:20
		Re: Learning how the AI works By: MorgluM on Tue, 22 February 2011 20:03
		Re: Learning how the AI works By: Buns on Wed, 23 February 2011 15:59
		Re: Learning how the AI works By: MorgluM on Wed, 23 February 2011 17:34
		Re: Learning how the AI works By: MorgluM on Wed, 23 February 2011 17:36
		Re: Learning how the AI works By: Buns on Wed, 23 February 2011 18:24
		Re: Learning how the AI works By: MorgluM on Wed, 23 February 2011 21:13
		Re: Learning how the AI works By: JMich on Wed, 23 February 2011 21:27
		Re: Learning how the AI works By: MorgluM on Wed, 23 February 2011 21:32
		Re: Learning how the AI works By: MorgluM on Wed, 23 February 2011 21:42
		Re: Learning how the AI works By: MorgluM on Wed, 23 February 2011 21:57
		Re: Learning how the AI works By: MorgluM on Thu, 24 February 2011 01:22
		Re: Learning how the AI works By: MorgluM on Thu, 24 February 2011 23:27
		Re: Learning how the AI works By: JMich on Thu, 24 February 2011 23:41
		Re: Learning how the AI works By: tais on Fri, 25 February 2011 00:07
		Re: Learning how the AI works By: MorgluM on Fri, 25 February 2011 06:02
		Re: Learning how the AI works By: MorgluM on Fri, 25 February 2011 06:09
		Re: Learning how the AI works By: JMich on Fri, 25 February 2011 09:05
		Re: Learning how the AI works By: MorgluM on Tue, 01 March 2011 20:08
		Re: Learning how the AI works By: Buns on Tue, 08 March 2011 17:26
		Re: Learning how the AI works By: JMich on Tue, 08 March 2011 17:47
		Re: Learning how the AI works By: Buns on Tue, 08 March 2011 19:39
		Re: Learning how the AI works By: JMich on Tue, 08 March 2011 20:13
		Re: Learning how the AI works By: Buns on Wed, 09 March 2011 14:51
		Re: Learning how the AI works By: JMich on Wed, 09 March 2011 16:05
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