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 What “online-only” alien (what alien which could only exist online) does
Bot Memory make you think of? Give your idea a Cosmic Alien name and power.
Peter and I have been talking about a Bot Memory ai enhancement for the Cosmic Encounter®
Online game, and on Tuesday he sent me an email with his thoughts about some of the basic game information my Java code will have to support in order for alien bot memories to be more than figments
of our imaginations.
See also, related may 26, 2011 Bot AI tech tantra article.
Following is the content of Peter's email with some edits, additions and reorganization by me:
Summary
- There are four online aliens that have private knowledge of other aliens' pods because of their alien power - Mind, Philanthropist, Trader, and Vulch - and two
whose power allows public knowledge of their pods - Clone and Filch. (see page 2)
- All aliens have private knowledge of their own set of pods (current Cosmic Bot AI uses this knowledge)
- All aliens have private knowledge of their own pods history:
- All aliens have private knowledge of their pods lost in compensation to another alien.
- All aliens have private knowledge of their pods lost via Plague or artifacts lost when getting new pods. Note, in the board game
card losses because of the Plague and Artifact discards when gaining a new hand are public. Online pod losses to Pod Salvage because of the Plague and Artifact discards when a player gets a new pods
are private.
- Aliens who participate in a Negotiation deal have private knowledge of pod offers and swaps.
- Additional public knowledge with a history includes:
- All aliens have knowledge of publicly displayed encounter pods which are “jettisoned” to Pod Salvage (the discard pile).
- All aliens have public knowledge of the level indicator showing the percentage of total pods in the Pod Source before pods are dealt.
- All aliens have public knowledge of the level indicator showing the percentage of total pods in the Pod Salvage.
- All aliens have public knowledge of when the Pod Source is reshuffled (although this is easy for human players to miss).
- Public knowledge of current game information (also used by current Cosmic Bot AI) includes:
- All aliens have public knowledge of the Warpish points (the total number of ships in the Warp; except Ghost ships in the Warp should not be
visible, in which case Warpish points would only be visible when Encounter results are shown).
- All aliens have public knowledge of the Warrior's Experience points after its last encounter
- All aliens have public knowledge of the Sapient's Wisdom points after its last encounter
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