Creatures: Behavior

[Heurazio]

@GyroParadox

Some behaviors could perhaps chain into each other. For example, STALK can lead to TAUNT, and in turn lead to full on attack or DART.

I already asked them long ago if they plan to update the AI.

@james

Q. Do you plan to update the AI ? (At the moment it is pretty stupid … you can walk around a splitter and nuke him down with a hammer)

Yes. The current AI represents the initial steps to get the game navigating entities around a voxel environment. But it’s not too clever at the moment. I’m sure everyone has seen entities drowning in water and jumping off floating islands. Our aim is to make every creature in Boundless interesting to interact with. Expect some significant updates to the AI before 1.0.

The answer is really clear, Yes. Your ideas in general are good but i’d wait for the new AI and more creatures before i could say what behaviors i’d like to see on what type of creature.

@KuroKuma

Maybe they could add some kind of fungal hivemind with a learning algorithm as AI. So they slowely evolve and adapt to how we fight them.But this would of course also increase the server strain so there’s that.

Learning AI for a MMO is a hard challenge. Do you heard about AlphaGo ? They need a super computer (1.2k cores) for teaching a computer the game GO I also see learning AI more in a singleplayer game.

@Stretchious

I nice idea in theory… but where does it end. And how does that affect new players just entering the game for the first time?

TBH i’m not sure what’s the outcome of learning AI in a MMO because we all would try to kill them with different approaches and in as result the creature would be “just” shy like normal animals in the nature (they don’t even try to fight humans in normal cases they just run away).