JuBot: An Improved AI for 0AD Daedalus

[debux]

And I can't help myself - the wall-building mechanic is TERRIBLE!

Yeah, I usually avoid using it and just use towers to somehow bar chokepoints, together with other buildings and a gateway. Hopefully they're still working on it.

[Jubal]

The wall-building is awful, the building attacks are really based on unit AI not strategic (in other words, not wholly my department) but also definitely need fixing. Generally attacks will be getting more intelligent though. The wall building is still being worked on.

[Jubal]

So, an updated JuBot with functionality to handle Carthaginians is just being finished off. 

[debux]

Can it handle me playing as the Carthaginians?

[Jubal]

Dynamic economic priority changes implemented. New militia features mean vastly more optimised defences.

Oh, and the game doesn't get stuck trying to make its villagers hunt fish anymore. 

[Marcus]

Any recent updates?

[Jubal]

Been making a few edits, which will appear in the next Alpha - mostly updating it to deal with territories.

[Jubal]

Am wondering whether it's worth continuing work on JuBot - qbot, the new AI, is being built by a two-man team both of whom have more free time than me to work on it, so I suspect I may just be unable to keep up in future. 

[debux]

Have you thought of joining your knowledge with the new AI creators? You might turn up with something really good together, if they haven't built on top of your bot.

[Jubal]

They didn't seem that interested when I suggested it beforehand. At some point I may return to doing some work on it, or move into either modding or scenario/RMS design.

[debux]

Did you do it through PM or a thread?

Maybe skinning?

[Jubal]

There's an IRC channel. And... have you ever seen my skinning attempts? There's a reason CG does pretty much all my skins for RTW. 

[Jubal]

Given JuBot some much needed updates, which will hopefully soon lead to fairly major speed boosts. 

[debux]

I thought that you gave up on working in JuBot, after the team chose a bot composed by dudes with more time to develop it. What made you change decision (or is my memory this bad?)

[Jubal]

I'm only updating it occasionally; put bluntly there's not much else useful I can do for 0AD at the moment, though when they release modfoldering capability, watch out.