Re: [MUD-Dev] NPC AI and Learning.

[alexo#bigfoot,com (Alex Oren)]

On Mon, 8 Sep 1997 08:31:06 PST8PDT, Travis S. Casey wrote:

} Secondly, success in the short term doesn't always equal success in the
} long term.  For example, a monster might always succeed in combat by
} our last definition above, but still lose.  How?  Any number of ways:
} the opponent might periodically retreat and heal up while the monster
} doesn't do so, for example.  Thus, a number of variables might be 
} involved in determining "success," which makes the problem harder...
} and makes it more time-consuming, since we may have to wait a considerable
} time before we know whether a tactic was successful.

Darwinian natural selection?

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Have fun,
Alex.