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The Battle of 100 Freeciv AIs

Posted by Soulskill on from the go-big-or-go-home dept.

Andreas(R) writes: The open source Freeciv project has simulated an epic game where 100 artificial intelligence players fight it out on a large map. You can watch the replay and check out the statistics of each AI.

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  1. Re:Freeciv? by Nyder · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I guess that's a free video game like "Civilisation"...?

    yes, FreeCiv was an open source project to make a Civilization II type game.

    I haven't played nor checked it out in a long time, so I don't know what improvements have been made on it in the last 10 years, but much like nethack, it was a must install. And much like nethack I haven't played it 10 years...

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  2. Stalemate AI by Neo-Rio-101 · · Score: 3, Interesting

    In a stalemate with all the various countries, should the AIs of the larger more powerful nations start noticing that progress towards world domination has slowed down and started doing the necessary politics to create an alliance to smash the tiny nations?

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    1. Re:Stalemate AI by smallfries · · Score: 4, Funny

      Or maybe they would prefer a nice game of chess, Professor?

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  3. Saved Game? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Where's the saved game? I want to take over one of the AI players and see how well I hold out.

    1. Re:Saved Game? by dvsdvl77 · · Score: 2

      No doubt! post link please.

  4. Freeciv HTML5 client by Andreas(R) · · Score: 2

    Freeciv can also be played online in your browser at http://play.freeciv.org/

  5. The same AIs or different ones? by DrXym · · Score: 3, Interesting
    Is each of those 100 AIs essentially the same? I shouldn't be surprised that in that case it comes out as a bit of a stalemate, or with the winner decided essentially by fate (the tiles they started with).

    What would be interesting is to be able to plug AIs into freeciv - a bit like crobots, core wars or similar games. Then you could pit AIs against each other, perhaps even grade them by strength and allow humans to play them.

  6. Re:Freeciv? by allcoolnameswheretak · · Score: 2

    If you want a challenging civilization experience, C-evo Civilization is pretty good. It's basically a deterministic Civ implementation with unit design and some altered rules.