I knew someone would be suggesting that. The thing is that it fixes the symptoms while not addressing the basic problem that civilians running away is a fundamentally flawed concept. It's not good to try to work around such a flaw, because it adds complexity, which in turn might throw up new sub-problems requiring further fixes, all of which serve to further complicate. It's better to just come up with something else, something that will simply work.
As for the question of why civilians running to the edges of the map is bad, that's because the middle of the map won't be used anymore. The civilians run to the edges and the aliens follow the civilians. That means battles would boil down to "cleaning the edges", and that is bad.
Yupz, i agree with this point of 'cleaning the edges'. So the current AI for civi is simply to run to edge?
Can i suggest that they simply be adopting 2.2.1 style - run opp direction of aliens, towards PHALANX members if possible, staying out of LOS of aliens. 3 simple concepts.
If we dun like running away concept, we can have simply a hide and seek stuff, simply staying out of LOS of aliens.
Unless of course we are thinking of planning to arm these civi, then KILL those aliens-bas@#&*
Then the way i propose is:
1) Arm those civi with basic wpns (like pistols and max M16 like wpns aka assault rifles).
2) AI - Tactical guerilla style shoot those bas*&*s
3) Stay out of Alien LOS.
What do u think BT?
We do want live specimens, and in quantity too, but we don't want them ALL alive. Not by a long shot! The aliens are trying to kill us, and we're killing them right back. That, in a nutshell, is what the game is about. Capturing alive is part of the game too, but it is not the most important part.
This has been said many times before. I'm set against civilians running towards the soldiers because this would be EASY. All you'd need to do is set up a defensive line for the civilians to cross, and wait until the aliens come in range. That's not UFO:AI as I want it to play out.
Running towards special locations is possible, but pointless as the aliens aren't going to discriminate (they won't stay out of churches).
Civilians shooting back is a possibility, but civilians killing aliens is not. If a civilian could kill an alien, PHALANX would have no reason to exist.
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