Endless Space 2 - AI Modding closed beta

C++ wow, that puts me out. LUA, HTML I guess I am outdated!! or maybe unskilled

I really really hope you guys are able to come up with a competitive AI, your task is probably the most difficult in the game, creating something that simulates the human brain.  I'm one for letting the AI cheat a big to know where to go what to do to help them along.  Also resource allocation in the game would be a good place to start.  Like if the AI knows it has more T thand H it should gear itself towards T weapons, and sme with antimatter ect.  Just using resources properly would have a positive impact, also build order too.  Its not hard to crunch the numbers on a particular system to tell the AI what to prioritize and when to prioritize ships.  I wish i was smarter in coding than I am, otherwise I would happily devote 40 hours a week to this.  I consider this game to be a better vision than that Star Citizen crap thats being crowdsourced wtih no end in sight.  Amplitude! Great job at using the community at its fullest while staying true to your game!

And i really really do enjoy your game, Good luck guys, and make a AI that can smoke my but PLEASE :D!!!

Ahhh, I took that the "We will get in touch asap if you have been selected" would be after sending the application, so I hope you're right :D

bblanque wrote:

I've sent the mail, it had no reply, a yes or no could be good :)

They may only send replies after the deadline for submissions, which would make sense with them saying "we just want to evaluate how much demand there is!"

I've sent the mail, it had no reply, a yes or no could be good :)

I'm too casual for the open beta, but I look forward to when this comes out. Sounds really cool. 

"Good knowledge in C# programming"... well damn I guess that's not me lmao

I'd like to apply but am not sure I'll have much time to look into it. I'm also not sure if one could call me a "video game affiliate" or not. I worked on other video-games (Pandora: First Contact, Dominus Galaxia) but it was all voluntary work without paycheck.

I am experienced in coding AI in C# from my work on Dominus Galaxia. I have modded Civ3, ES1 and Pandora: First Contact. The mods were mostly AI mods and rule-changes in order to make games easier to play for AI.

I have only played 1 game in ES2, so I am not good yet at knowing what is good to do.

One thing that annoyed me was that there was no Common Governor, only specialized ones. That's a thing I'd like to work on because this would drastically improve my experience. I don't want to micromanage every colony but I also don't like how the specialized governors work.

It sounds really interesting. Playing with AI development is always fun and full of new things to learn. Count me in!

Good to see folks interested in this. I'm optimistic for the future!

zBobiwan wrote:

Hello, 

if you knew the basic of c#, we can help you :)

We are here to answer to all questions.

If you are motivated, the are no problems !

hot damn!   Time for me to do that crash course in c# on codeschool.  It will mean interrupting my progress in java to git 'er done in a week, so hope I get approved; if I can pull off a couple courses, that is.  I haven't been so motivated since I was developing my first app...even tho it was purely cosmetic.  And before that it was my first (and only) website that spurred me onward towards learning again.

Hello, 

if you knew the basic of c#, we can help you :)

We are here to answer to all questions.

If you are motivated, the are no problems !

If only I knew more than the most basic C#.

Looking forward to seeing what comes of this, though.

Wow! Very cool! Hope this is well received and people participate!!!

Good to hear it's being looked into. 

I do not mind if Mods that do affect gameplay have achievements disabled, as a computer can't really determine what mods are balanced.

If AI is getting modded then the entire rationale for whitelists/blacklists collapses. An AI mod will necessariy impact gameplay, unlike purely graphical ones.

If Amplitude will be relying on crowd-sources AI improvement then it would be necessary to stop discriminating against modders. It's a bit of a mixed message that they want the community to mod the game but don't want the players to use the mods...

Falkner wrote:

So how do you reconcile opening up AI for modding with treating mod-users as 2nd class players?

See your official position previously expressed here.

That Post was just after they built the whole modding system, I doubt they liked the prospect of doing a lot of the work they just did over again to satisfy a small few.

They may be more open to it now, I don't know.

But being accusatory is not going to help your case.

Also are you aware of how much work would be required to make the changes in the .Net Assemblies to allow for blacklisting/whitelist of mod datatables?

It’s not that easy

So how do you reconcile opening up AI for modding with treating mod-users as 2nd class players?

See your official position previously expressed here.