SimCity’s Sims Don’t Seem That Smart After All

Re:SimCity’s Sims Don’t Seem That Smart After All by egor83 on Wednesday March 13, 2013 @01:13PM (#5369698)

That's something I would be really interested to follow and maybe contribute to, so if anyone shares any pointers or links to existing OSS projects, I'd be very grateful.

Now necessarily city-simulation engine - just routing/pathfinding in graphs would be great.

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Re:SimCity’s Sims Don’t Seem That Smart After All by tempaccount9473 on Wednesday March 13, 2013 @01:24PM (#5369770)

The best example of a working and fun open-source routing/pathfinding engine is http://www.openttd.org

It's optimized for gameplay rather than perfect efficiency, but parts of it are quite hackable, including the ability to add custom AIs

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Re:SimCity’s Sims Don’t Seem That Smart After All by EvanKelly on Wednesday March 13, 2013 @02:49PM (#5370303)

I just started playing openttd, and am having a great time, though I still struggle with complex rail networks.

Do you have recommendations for AI? I've been using NoCAB, but I'm kind of frustrated with how that AI works, so I almost always play solo games now.

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Re:SimCity’s Sims Don’t Seem That Smart After All by duck on Wednesday March 13, 2013 @01:42PM (#5369881)

Thanks for sharing that, I had no idea that existed and I loved TTD!

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Re:SimCity’s Sims Don’t Seem That Smart After All by anigbrowl on Wednesday March 13, 2013 @04:22PM (#5370881)

Netlogo is an open tool written in Java for agent-based simulations (and much more), and quite mature, well worth checking out if you are into this sort thing. I always had a down on Logo because when I was a kid it seemed only to be mentioned in the context of turtle graphics, but the implementation here is powerful and reasonably terse.

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