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Well, it would have to beat a human's micro first. Remember, it's not just doing predictable actions every time. A lot of it is dancing back and forth and tryi

by iopq 12y ago

Well, it would have to beat a human's micro first. Remember, it's not just doing predictable actions every time. A lot of it is dancing back and forth and trying to bait your opponent. So an AI might say "focus firing a stalker is the most efficient" and the human player blinks it away. Then it chooses the next target and the human player blinks that away as well. And so forth until the human player runs out of healthy stalkers and simply walks away with hurt stalkers having done enough damage. The "correct" solution might have been actually to run past your opponent's army and to surround it spreading the damage. Even when you blink out you're still close to the enemy army because of blink's range. There could be a mathematical model that predicts whether to run past or to attack or to stutter-step, but humans do this based on experience. AIs are not close to this level of sophistication.

happimess 12y ago
I think this is exactly the kind of situation that GP had in mind. A computer would be undoubtedly faster and more accurate concentrating fire on the weakest stalker, but a human is better at deciding whether to attack now or move into position. So instead of 'attack this unit,' the player could command his units to 'attack the weakest stalker in range.' Or even, 'stutter step along this path, concentrating fire on the weakest anti-air unit.'
ohaal 12y ago
In many cases, simply having the higher APM should be enough to win: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrbYd4OFrWE#t=18 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrbYd4OFrWE#t=18 Nevermind the fact that while the computer is doing this micro, it is also able to do macro.
- iopq 12y ago
  yeah, for kiting/splitting a bot can just do this easily now think what the bot would have to do if it's controlling the banelings KNOWING that the other person is going to control the marines away and it's not as simple

by iopq 12y ago

happimess 12y ago

I think this is exactly the kind of situation that GP had in mind. A computer would be undoubtedly faster and more accurate concentrating fire on the weakest stalker, but a human is better at deciding whether to attack now or move into position. So instead of 'attack this unit,' the player could command his units to 'attack the weakest stalker in range.' Or even, 'stutter step along this path, concentrating fire on the weakest anti-air unit.'

ohaal 12y ago

In many cases, simply having the higher APM should be enough to win: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrbYd4OFrWE#t=18 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrbYd4OFrWE#t=18 Nevermind the fact that while the computer is doing this micro, it is also able to do macro.

iopq 12y ago
yeah, for kiting/splitting a bot can just do this easily now think what the bot would have to do if it's controlling the banelings KNOWING that the other person is going to control the marines away and it's not as simple