Make biters avoid defences

quinor · Post by **quinor** » Tue Apr 21, 2015 2:40 pm

They are not very smart for now. Even if they need complete AI rewrite, maybye just for now give them ability to avoid defences while travelling by eg. Incerasing travel cost around towers in pathfinding code. It will force players to put much more effort in setting up defences before proper, "smart" ai will be introduced and should not take much time to implement.

Post by **ssilk** » Tue Apr 21, 2015 4:26 pm

I would like to have that implemented with pheromones.

https://forums.factorio.com/forum/vie ... ilit=smell

quinor · Post by **quinor** » Tue Apr 21, 2015 9:06 pm

Yeah, I've forgotten about the pheromones

That's much better idea. Still, I meant this one to be kind of placeholder.

Post by **ssilk** » Tue Apr 21, 2015 9:14 pm

Yeah, the pheromones idea is also not very far grown. The problem is, that the devs are needed to implement a first better-than-nothing version of "pheromones spreading". It's a bit like the pollution spreading, but we don't know, what we really would need and it could be complex to calculate that, cause we need to calculate it on tiles, not on chunks...

Peter34 · Post by **Peter34** » Wed Apr 22, 2015 7:41 am

ssilk wrote:I would like to have that implemented with pheromones.

https://forums.factorio.com/forum/vie ... ilit=smell

That could be a good idea. I mean, I haven't read the linked to posts yet, but something where Biters and Spitters leave some kind of pheromone trail with "plusses" and "minusses" depending on how much or little martial success they have.

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