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Re:Show HN: We started building an AI dev tool but it turned... by snerbles on Monday August 18, 2025 @06:33PM (#44946006)
IIRC the RA1 skirmish mode AIs always had perfect information and resource multipliers based on difficulty. RA2 did it a little differently with "virtual ore purifiers" added for the high difficulty AIs. I'm sure a similar thing was done for the Tiberian Dawn campaign and the Tiberian Sun multiplayer/skirmish AIs.

OpenRA's bots are a bit more clever, and also don't need to magically see into fog-of-war.

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Re:Show HN: We started building an AI dev tool but it turned... by mh- on Monday August 18, 2025 @06:36PM (#44946031)
I never played much of RA2, but played hundreds of hours of RA1 skirmish. Must have been that. Thanks for the insight!

Skirmish was a blast- I'd turtle until I had the enormous battleships (cruisers?) that could fire onto land. Loads of fun when I was like 12.

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