[Kde-games-devel] GSoC Ksirk IA Idea

[Gaël (aka Kleag)]

Hello Jesus,

I'm happy to see you volunteering to work on the ksirk AI! :-)

On Wednesday 10 March 2010 01:57:46 Jesus Mager wrote:
> Hi developers!
> 
> My name is Jesús Mager, student of the UNAM Mexico and I'm interested
> in participate in GSoC writing a new IA for Ksirk [1]. Do you have
> more information about the needed improvements? It seems the IA cheats
> (fixed?), 
Yes, this is (presumably) fixed. It was a bug not a volunteer cheat :-)

> don't responses in some cases etc... [2] I really will
> apresiate ideas about what the new IA should do (expectations?).
Some known problems are listed here: 
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=170777

But the main problems are that the current AI, taken from xfrisk (a C 
implementation) is not well integrated into the game, does not use formal game 
AI algorithms and is purely tactic with no stratefy: at each turns it chooses 
the action that will allow it to gain a country or a continent, with no idea 
how to win the whole game and with no idea of its current goal. Also, it does 
not try to guess the other players strategies.

So, the KsirK AI is a completely open problem that you'll have to rethink from 
the beginning.

Regards,

Gaël
> 
> [1] http://community.kde.org/GSoC/2010/Ideas#Project:_New_AI_for_KsirK
> [2] comments of http://games.kde.org/game.php?game=ksirk
> 
> best!
> 
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