Ah, influence mapping... I participated in a fun thread on comp.ai.games in 1995 where a lot of these ideas were first fleshed out. http://zhar.net/projects/ga

Ah, influence mapping... I participated in a fun thread on comp.ai.games in 1995 where a lot of these ideas were first fleshed out. http://zhar.net/projects/gameai/influence_map.html http://zhar.net/projects/gameai/influence_map.html My contribution was to use heat transfer calculations to model the battlefield as a conductive plate with units as heat constraints. Fun times. I always wondered if that thread inspired any real world games.