SmartAI demo and visualisation of the colonisation heuristic

Since a picture is worth more than thousand words and a video is worth even more I present you with both.



In this video you can see an AI battle between two SmartAIs. Red one only colonises and green one only attacks. It proves that outrunning (actually outcolonising) is a possible tactic in MTSec.
It can also be seen that the red player tries to avoid colonising planets close to the green player because they are more endangered.




Colonisation heuristic is visualised here. Small red squares represent enemy planets and the green square represents the fleets current position. Brighter means better for colonisation. It takes into account the distance from the fleet and distance from the nearest enemy planet.