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The Battle of 100 Freeciv AIs 38

Posted by Soulskill 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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The Battle of 100 Freeciv AIs

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  • Freeciv? (Score:2, Insightful)

    by dohzer ( 867770 )

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

    • Re: (Score:1)

      by Anonymous Coward

      Spoiler: The Kardashians civ won in the end, narrowly edging out the Seminoles.

    • Re:Freeciv? (Score:5, Interesting)

      by Nyder ( 754090 ) on Tuesday April 28, 2015 @11:01PM (#49574513) Journal

      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...

      • 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.

      • this is not the civilisation clone you're thinking of... this one here is purely played online using a HTML5 capable browser...

        • this is not the civilisation clone you're thinking of... this one here is purely played online using a HTML5 capable browser...

          Actually, it is. They just made a new version of it using HTML 5, but it is the same game [wikia.com].

    • It was until they added a real time element to combat. You can attack on someone else's turn which is the dumbest thing ever. The game changes from turn based thoughtful relaxing play to a twitchfest.

      • Re: (Score:2)

        by dcw3 ( 649211 )

        Yikes. Turn based is one of the reasons I like the Civ series games. When my wife walks in during the middle of the game, I don't have to worry that I'm going to lose my place, or the game in order to respond and avoid spouse agro.

        • I remember when I first discovered it; I was playing an online game back in 2003ish and enemy dude planted a stack of catapults outside one of my cities. I thought to myself: okay, I can bring several horsemen via my roads from this other city to kill that stack... WTF? How are all his catapults attacking my city on my turn? He couldn't occupy the city, but he could attack any adjacent square. I totally thought he was cheating. And it sort of is cheating; if you're faster on the draw, a stronger attack

          • Re: (Score:1)

            by rp ( 29053 )
            "I stopped playing freeciv once they stopped being turn based." That should read: "I stopped playing Freeciv before I understood how it works." Freeciv never "stopped being turn-based".

            In Freeciv, all human players move concurrently, during the same turn. It was always this way; trying to make this work was the reason for creating it.

            AI players were added later. Human and AI players do take turns: AI players never do anything during a turn, they only act at the start and end of a turn. They are a lo

            • I'm not sure what you were expecting; you must have been aware that human players were moving concurrently, so why did you expect things to somehow be different in battle?

              I wasn't aware of this, because when I played, there were actual turns. Not concurrent movement. I would take my turn, then I would have to wait a long time for the others to take their turns. My guess is that you're remembering a later version of Freeciv. All I know is that they changed a great turn-based game into a "My connection to the server is faster than yours" game for no good reason.

  • Where's the Tux Racer demolition derby?

  • Comment removed (Score:4, Interesting)

    by account_deleted ( 4530225 ) on Tuesday April 28, 2015 @11:11PM (#49574535)
    Comment removed based on user account deletion

  • Oh, not the game—learning 'moccasin' is a color.

  • Saved Game? (Score:2, Insightful)

    by Anonymous Coward

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

  • Freeciv HTML5 client (Score:3)

    by Andreas(R) ( 448328 ) on Wednesday April 29, 2015 @12:49AM (#49574737) Homepage

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

  • The same AIs or different ones? (Score:4, Interesting)

    by DrXym ( 126579 ) on Wednesday April 29, 2015 @02:57AM (#49574987)
    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.

    • Re: (Score:2)

      by Sowelu ( 713889 )

      That's what really disappointed me--I was hoping for different AIs as well. I never got into core wars but always wanted to, and I love games that pit different bot implementations of normally-human players against each other.

  • Careful with this headline. You never know who might be watching. Like, Peter Jackson.

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