[Defconapi] Auto adding ai players

[Ashley Pinner]

David, you could always run game recordings via dedcon and have the AI 
bot learn by being a spectator to the game.

You can grab dedcon here: http://dedcon.net/

You can also nab game recordings from all the servers Bert (the guy who 
coded dedcon) runs here: http://simamo.de/~dedcon/servers/

You can then run a recording through a dedcon server and then connect 
your API client to the server, which will stream the game as if it were 
being played live. Read the readme files to learn more about using dedcon.

Remember that your bot might have to specialise; a player who's good at 
1v1 might be terrible at 6FFA. While there's more depth to a 1v1 game, I 
would suggest to start there as there's far less going on in said games 
and thus they would be easier to debug :)

Ashley

On 20/01/2010 14:50, David Croft wrote:
> I'm going to be starting a project using GAs in an ai bot. In order to
> evolve the bot I am going to need to be able to run a whole load of
> games automatically. Is there anyway to automatically add internal
> ai's to a game? I could always try and run multiple versions of defcon
> and get them to connect to a server running my bot but that isn't
> exactly an elegant solution.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks
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