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In article <1992Aug13.101432.16647@jyu.fi>, ap@jyu.fi (Patric Aalto) writes...

>I would want the enemy ships to be aware of each other, so that they could
>work as a group instead of separate (and stupid, at that) single ships.
>But how? I have planned to let the player control the other friendly ships
>by sending them messages ('form on my wing', 'attack my target', etc. like
>in Wing Commander II from Origin). But how would I get the enemy ships
>work like that? There should be an 'enemy leader' that can send messages
>to other enemy ships, but I have felt the algorithms to make the enemy
>leader sufficiently 'intelligent' are beyond my grasp, at least at the
>moment.

Hey, you can try, say, 10 different algorithms - just for the fun of it.
I think, though, that the most fancy (and extremely inteligent) way of doing
this would be writing a simulation of a Neural Network (NNW).
Great way to educate yourself and make your 'enemy' incredibly smart !
The NNW would train pretty soon (I mean in the context of the application),
and it also would be fun to see it getting smarter ...



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