AI Random Personalities?

[LordGek]

Hey Betas and Previewers!

I love the concept of RANDOM PERSONALITIES for the AI but at the same time I'm a little nervous about how this may have been implemented. This option was there in SMAC and while very entertaining it often felt like it would setup some really silly situations like an Environmentalist Morgan Industries and such. I mean having a war mongering Ghandi, for example, could be cool BUT I'd love some word from folk in the front, can the AI competently handle personalities that would appear counter to their strengths? Take the Ghandi example again, Ghandi COULD be a pretty nasty conqueror but he'd need to play war monger in a very differnt way (like not relying as much on brute force of numbers but advanced tech for his units) than somebody like Ghengis.

So basically is choosing random personalities not just putting the AI at some big disadvantage?

[Solver]

It doesn't put the AIs at a disadvantage. If a random personality is aggressive, then it will do its best to fight. AIs won't really be weakened by the randomization.

[LordShiva]

FYI it's "Gandhi," not "Ghandi."

Alot of people seem to make this mistake.

[LordGek]

Ghengis, Gandhi...

please excuse my confused spelling.

[Stormhound]

Ah, but will the AIs have GPPs?

[LordShiva]

Originally posted by LordGek
Ghengis, Gandhi...

please excuse my confused spelling.

Actually, it's "Genghis"

[archermoo]

Originally posted by LordShiva


Actually, it's "Genghis"

Well, in the GAME sure. But in reality it was translitterated from a different alphabet, so you get all sorts of different spellings, most of which are more or less correct.

[CarnalCanaan]

Originally posted by archermoo


Well, in the GAME sure. But in reality it was translitterated from a different alphabet, so you get all sorts of different spellings, most of which are more or less correct.

Well, technically every word is translitterated. Unless you invented the words and the alphabet used to express them (e.g. Klingon). I hear in the British version of the game they misspellt EVERYTHING!

[LordShiva]

Originally posted by archermoo
Well, in the GAME sure. But in reality it was translitterated from a different alphabet, so you get all sorts of different spellings, most of which are more or less correct.

Well, just because a name was originally written in a different alphabet doesn't mean that it's impossible to transliterate it phonetically. In English "Gh" at the beginning of a word is a hard G sound, while the G in "Genghis" is soft

Actually, the pronunciation is more like Chinghiz or something, but that isn't too badly approximated by "Genghis."

[archermoo]

Originally posted by LordShiva


Well, just because a name was originally written in a different alphabet doesn't mean that it's impossible to transliterate it phonetically. In English "Gh" at the beginning of a word is a hard G sound, while the G in "Genghis" is soft

Actually, the pronunciation is more like Chinghiz or something, but that isn't too badly approximated by "Genghis."

Very true that it isn't impossible to transliterate it. Just that it is impossible to have one "correct" way of doing so. The phonemes between the languages just aren't the same. Personally, I generally use Chinggis, as that is the spelling used in Urgunge Onon's translation of "The Secret History of the Mongols", which is my prefered version.

But then again, we might be getting a bit off topic...