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Re: 0 A.D. Alpha 25: Yaunā

#13
post #6

This game is awesome. I also love that they have support for reinforcement learning[1]. I wish all the research in RL and video games was on open source games. Slight bias on my end. :) [1] https://trac.wildfiregames.com/wiki/GettingStartedReinforcem...

What I am hoping to see is the Petra AI code stubbed out for ML/RL tasks, https://github.com/0ad/0ad/tree/master/binaries/data/mods/pu... ... nearly every manager/function there could have it's actions modified based on what it views or calculates in previous gameplay. One was introduced a few alphas back before the interface, https://github.com/agentx-cgn/Hannibal

Re: 0 A.D. Alpha 25: Yaunā

#15

This is one of my favorite games. It's what AOE III should have been. I still think there should be some kind of Kaggle competition for training AI on this game.

I actually love AoE III but never did much with 0AD.

Does it have much of a multiplayer scene? Are there any sites to look at good build orders. I might have to try it again.

Re: 0 A.D. Alpha 25: Yaunā

#17

I should give it a try again, last time the AI beat me so badly every try...

This is one of the nice things about this game: that it challenges your sense of time value. If you stay in your base and keep expanding without attacking, the AI exponentially grows and takes over easily. But if you sacrifice resources to destroy more resources from the opponent, it will almost feel easy to play.

Re: 0 A.D. Alpha 25: Yaunā

#18
post #8

Nice of them to include torrents, and I long for the day when the browser speaks it natively, choosing to seed for as long as the page stays open, as a good start I like both the tone and the content of the torrent FAQ page they made, too: https://play0ad.com/download/bittorrent-faq/

> I long for the day when the browser speaks it natively

Brave browser

Re: 0 A.D. Alpha 25: Yaunā

#19

This game changed my mind about what is possible for an open source game. I'm also wondering when they will stop calling it alpha.

Check out Battle for Wesnoth wesnoth.org

OpenTTD, is perhaps the most successful open source game, though it largely sidesteps the criticism of "too many cooks" in regards to vision by starting from someone else's vision.

(Freeciv is another example).

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