Sabrina Kilian wrote:
> And could it be sold cheaper then developing a new
> one with just certain features?

Yeah, that all makes sense. Thanks for your thought. :)

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Darren New wrote:
> What's missing to make that happen?

Actually, I thought of a couple other things.

Getting AI friendlies to do what you want them to would seem to be a 
difficult thing. It's pretty awkward right now, interface-wise. 
Populus-style instructions, HL2-style instructions, Darwinia-style 
instructions, none of them really seem satisfactory.

Conversations (between PC and NPC) are awkward, interface-wise. The 
"pick a response from the menu" mechanism never seemed especially 
in-game realistic. Of course, games where you have non-cutscene 
conversations with others (IME) are usually telling a story, but it 
would seem this is something we haven't figured out how to do even with 
a 100x increase in compute power.

Or have games I haven't played improved this sort of thing?

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Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
> Conversations (between PC and NPC) are awkward, interface-wise.

> Or have games I haven't played improved this sort of thing?

  Yes. In Half-Life 2 the playable character is completely silent. ;)

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And lo on Thu, 06 Dec 2007 03:30:59 -0000, Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom>  
did spake, saying:

> Darren New wrote:
>> What's missing to make that happen?
>
> Actually, I thought of a couple other things.
>
> Getting AI friendlies to do what you want them to would seem to be a  
> difficult thing. It's pretty awkward right now, interface-wise.  
> Populus-style instructions, HL2-style instructions, Darwinia-style  
> instructions, none of them really seem satisfactory.

Let's see a toggle between a 'return fire' and 'shoot on contact' stance  
with 'advance' 'retreat' and 'go there' buttons. For a console easily  
mapped to the directional buttons, if the AI is good enough to use cover  
and has adequate path-finding that'd do me.

> Conversations (between PC and NPC) are awkward, interface-wise. The  
> "pick a response from the menu" mechanism never seemed especially  
> in-game realistic.

I liked what happened if you dropped the intelligence of your character in  
Neverwinter Nights.

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Phil Cook wrote:
> Let's see a toggle between a 'return fire' and 'shoot on contact' stance 
> with 'advance' 'retreat' and 'go there' buttons. For a console easily 
> mapped to the directional buttons, if the AI is good enough to use cover 
> and has adequate path-finding that'd do me.

If they're just there helping you to kill baddies, yah.  When you get 
into things like "bridge this gap with that plank" or "use your rocket 
launcher on that door", I can see it getting as complicated as any other 
character interaction.

Or how about "Stay here and cover me" or "lay down suppressing fire"? :-)

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Darren New wrote:
> Darren New wrote:
>> What's missing to make that happen?
> 
> Actually, I thought of a couple other things.
> 
> Getting AI friendlies to do what you want them to would seem to be a 
> difficult thing. It's pretty awkward right now, interface-wise. 
> Populus-style instructions, HL2-style instructions, Darwinia-style 
> instructions, none of them really seem satisfactory.

I'd be happy if my friendly AIs didn't stand in fire or poison clouds in 
Diablo II.

Regards,
John

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John VanSickle nous apporta ses lumieres en ce 2007/12/06 18:59:
> Darren New wrote:
>> Darren New wrote:
>>> What's missing to make that happen?
>>
>> Actually, I thought of a couple other things.
>>
>> Getting AI friendlies to do what you want them to would seem to be a 
>> difficult thing. It's pretty awkward right now, interface-wise. 
>> Populus-style instructions, HL2-style instructions, Darwinia-style 
>> instructions, none of them really seem satisfactory.
> 
> I'd be happy if my friendly AIs didn't stand in fire or poison clouds in 
> Diablo II.
> 
> Regards,
> John
Or my mage did'nt fire his wand of lightning sideway in a small halway in 
Baldus's Gate... even if that wand is NOT equiped.

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