Re: investigating whether wesnoth is suitable for my AI thesis

On Fri, 2007-06-01 at 08:47 -0500, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 01, 2007 at 11:45:17 +0200,
>   "Roald (ubuntu_demon)" <ubuntu.demon <at> gmail.com> wrote:
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> > IMHO it's possible to trow in automatic difficulty scaling to make sure
> > playing against this AI is fun for everyone (not just those that are
> > playing equal or better than this AI). This is probably out of scope of
> > my research but might be fun to try afterwards.
> 
> There are other ways to scale difficulty in Wesnoth, so that isn't a big
> deal. More often the AI is told to do things to make a story line work
> rather than for scenario balancing.

Although I agree with the idea that doing difficulty scaling via the AI
is probably overkill, it *is* something I'd love to see happen.

In theory, you could do it today in WML, based on some analysis of
starting gold and units, or even during a scenario.  But it'd be nice to
have a single WML knob to say "autoadjust", with some parameters
(feedback from stats.wesnoth.org?)

Cheers,
Rusty.