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The heuristic and movement cost could easily include a cost factor for turrets in range. That would naturally prefer paths skirting around turrets.valneq wrote: ↑Tue Oct 22, 2019 9:57 pmIt is unlikely that the biter AI with change significantly in the future – apart from the newly introduced pathfinding optimizations._alphaBeta_ wrote: ↑Tue Oct 22, 2019 4:02 pmI'm hoping this pathfinding upgrade is a precursor to more sophisticated biter attacks. Would be nice if biters offered more of a challenge by avoiding hazards altogether and going through a hole in your defenses.
If you are looking for more challenging biters, you may try playing with the mod "Rampant" by "Veden". It has a more sophisticated biter AI: probing your defenses, attacking the weak spots, etc. Lots of people love it for that.
See its page on the modportal.
It also works in combination with mods that increase the strength of the biters themselves, such as "Bob's Enemies" or "Natural Evolution Enemies". If you like a proper warfare challenge.
Different terrain has different movement speed. You can run faster on grass than sand. The game should consider that too.BlueTemplar wrote: ↑Fri Oct 25, 2019 4:59 pmRampant has a "cost factor" (?) for the places where biters died.
I think that's a separate, higher level issue. The pathfinding just tells the biter how to get from A to B, some other AI is responsible for picking a good B._alphaBeta_ wrote: ↑Tue Oct 22, 2019 4:02 pmI'm hoping this pathfinding upgrade is a precursor to more sophisticated biter attacks. Would be nice if biters offered more of a challenge by avoiding hazards altogether and going through a hole in your defenses.
Or you start the path finding in reverse with all the B's as starting positions and the resulting path is the closest one that can be reached.stribika wrote: ↑Tue Oct 29, 2019 11:13 pmI think that's a separate, higher level issue. The pathfinding just tells the biter how to get from A to B, some other AI is responsible for picking a good B._alphaBeta_ wrote: ↑Tue Oct 22, 2019 4:02 pmI'm hoping this pathfinding upgrade is a precursor to more sophisticated biter attacks. Would be nice if biters offered more of a challenge by avoiding hazards altogether and going through a hole in your defenses.
To me it seems like that's just nearest polluter for attacks, and random for expansion. They could instead expand towards either resources they know you need, choke points, near train tracks, etc. I've also seen some good ideas on this forum for how to pick attack targets.
