Developing a bot

[aidiss]

I consider developing a bot to play this game.
Any tips for doing that?
I guess the AI exists in a for non player civs. Would it be possible for AI to play this as the player watches?

[wintertime]

If you change some code you could probably make an AI only game.

[mpope042]

For testing, I just move the player units into the top right corner and let the AIs run. A full observer player type does not exist, but is probably not that hard to do.

I have speculated as to what would be needed to make an actually good AI/bot. It could be done, just look at what google have done with Starcraft. However I am not google's AI group:-) so I doubt the full ML method is within scope ATM. OTOH, perhaps something that needs less than a basement full of smoking CPUs to train might be possible. The good news is that to do better than the current AI is not a high bar.