24-01-2003 15:52									#1
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quote: When you find yourself in a battle alongside your allies, you can begin to order them around as well

from the latest ign review http://pc.ign.com/articles/383/383544p1.html

Any kind BHG man care to explain that a bit more?

	25-01-2003 06:05									#2
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that'll be tight

	26-01-2003 07:11									#3
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Players can use the multiplayer "ping" ability and standard multiplayer "taunts" to instruct the AI to attack, provide aid, and other various functions.

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	26-01-2003 12:20									#4
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Brian Reynolds said something about this on 15th November...

quote: * Allies -> Yes, you can coordinate with your computer allies; you can "signal" or "ping" where you want to focus your mutual attack (or where you need help or whatever). There is also a "taunt" system where you can give specific instructions like "build a wonder" or "work on your economy" or "wait for my signal to attack" and stuff like that.

	26-01-2003 15:05									#5
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right

i guess i wanted double confirmation as this is not in the previe build....

anyway, cool

	26-01-2003 20:40									#6
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i wonder what'll happened when 2 human and some ai are attack someone from different attck points, will the ai be confused and spit up, leaving themselves to be massacred?

	26-01-2003 21:39									#7
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you're talking about an alliance of 2 humans and 1 ai?

my guess is that the ai would try to act on the last order the two, but it all depends on how it is programmed. so we need a bhg programmer

* MarkG does bhg-call ritual dance

	27-01-2003 12:11									#8
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at least hes helping...

	27-01-2003 13:12									#9
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didnt work

lets try all together

	27-01-2003 17:52									#10
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This isn't really anything new. Age of Kings had something similar to this- where through the 'taunts' you could order AI allies to give resources and do certain things.

	27-01-2003 19:52									#11
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well if its just "taunts", then most games had it, the flare in EE, ect

	27-01-2003 20:49									#12
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"my guess is that the ai would try to act on the last order the two"

You are correct sir! The AI will be responding to the most recent order given by the two players.

Giving orders to AI players may not be a crazy new innovation, but it is damn cool to have.

	27-01-2003 21:41									#13
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it worked
thanks Graham

	28-01-2003 05:54									#14
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How advanced is this? Can you order the A.I. to attack a specific city? Can you have the A.I. build a certain type of army (i.e. composition)? How much is there to this?

	28-01-2003 10:33									#15
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***what tniem is saying sound too tbs....



i did the dance too, so answer me please, how close is this to flares and the systems in other RTS's?

	29-01-2003 02:53									#16
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What I mean is, order an attack and click a city. If cities are going to be important in this game than if your ally is attacking your enemy - you are going to want to know which damn city they are going to hit. Otherwise, it is a waste of your time.

Likewise, I do not mean you detail specific orders of how many of each type of unit in an army - I just mean if you want some air cover can that be ordered? That seems like something that I would like to see in a RTS.