When I write a bug it becomes the core gameplay

Gu Fan knew that speed was of the essence at this time, and he had to explain everything as quickly as possible, otherwise it would be easy for Lilith to take advantage of the situation.

"Boss Li, there are actually two bugs this time.

"The first is the bug that fake-AI replaces the archon to build.

"The second is the bug that the game does not automatically settle after the player completes the game.

"These two bugs do look outrageous, and are completely different from the underlying mechanism we designed. I was also very confused at the beginning. "

Lilith had a look of "I don't believe you".

You were also confused at the beginning?

Haha, let me see if I believe it or not.

Gu Fan was unmoved and continued: "After studying the code in depth, I found that this problem is indeed much more complicated than we originally thought.

"First of all, the first problem is the bug that fake-AI replaces the archon to build.

"In theory, this situation is unlikely to happen. But to say that it is completely impossible is not 100% in line with the underlying code mechanism. "

This opening directly shocked Lilith: "Wait, Gu Fan, when did you start taking Mao Dun Literature as an elective!

"Don't you think your statement is self-contradictory?"

Gu Fan continued: "Mr. Li, please listen to my explanation.

"In theory, this situation is unlikely to happen. This is because when we designed the game, we did not specifically design the gameplay and mechanism of "fake-AI replacing the archon player to perform construction operations."

"Therefore, if players experience the game according to the normal game process, it can be determined that this situation will almost not occur 99% of the time.

"And the remaining 1% of the situation is actually your request."

Lilith was stunned: "Why is it my request?"

Gu Fan explained: "I remember that in the initial concept draft of "Star Plan", a requirement was proposed:

"I hope to let two players and fake-AI form an unstable three-body system as much as possible. Is this what you asked for?"

Lilith was stunned for a moment, and then asked: "But what does this have to do with bugs!"

This point was not actually proposed by Lilith, but by Qin Fengliang.

The reason is also very simple. Lilith has been repeatedly defeated by fake-AI, so she wants to find a way to suppress fake-AI, or even use fake-AI in turn.

But it is impossible to directly remove the fake-AI module.

Because the official has built this system into the editor, it is very complicated and complex, and one move can affect the whole body.

And the official is still updating it.

Lilith dare not develop the engine by herself, fearing that these idiots under her will bury a bigger pit in the process of developing the engine by herself, so she can only make do with the official engine.

At this time, Qin Fengliang proposed that players and fake-AI can form a chaotic three-body system to interfere with each other.

According to the original architecture, this system is perfect.

The two players, the Archon and the Head of State, will play against each other, and they are the absolute leaders of the game.

But fake-AI is not idle either. It will make trouble from time to time, such as secretly inserting a non-compliant part into the production line, or secretly stopping the construction of a key building under construction.

In the process of intrigue, the Archon and the Head of State may not care who did it, or they may not realize that fake-AI will make trouble.

At this time, contradictions naturally arise.

Imagine that two people are arguing, and suddenly they find that there is an extra part on the production line, causing the entire industrial zone to stop.

At this time, the head of state will definitely scold the governor for messing around, but the governor will also feel wronged and will definitely defend himself by saying that it was not done by him. The head of state will say: If it wasn't you, could it be me?

After a while, won't this negative emotion exist?

In other words, when the governor works normally, fake-AI cannot actually play a leading role, and any of its actions will become disruptive and destructive behavior.

In addition, when the head of state players click on technology points, it is highly likely that they will not mix them up, but will specialize in a certain line, so Gu Fan said that the probability of this system having problems is only 1%, and the remaining 99% of the cases will not have problems.

There are two prerequisites for this 1% situation:

The first is that the Archon player is fully open and does not perform any operations, so that fake-AI actually gets the highest priority operation rights, and the two permissions will not interfere with each other;

The second is that the head of state player deliberately clicks all the technology points related to public opinion and AI on the Archon line and the Head of State line, and continuously expands the actual authority and intelligence level of fake-AI in the game.

Hearing this, Lilith frowned and interrupted hurriedly: "Wait!

"I understand the previous part for the time being, why does the head of state player click these technology points to improve the authority and intelligence level of fake-AI?

"Why, after the authority and intelligence level of fake-AI reach a certain level, it will automatically build?"

Gu Fan had already prepared: "Mr. Li, because this design is actually more logical!

"In the normal game process, we definitely hope that the more the head of state and the archon reach the middle and late stages of the game, the greater the contradictions and the more difficult problems to solve, right?"

Lilith nodded, this is natural.

If they fall out at the beginning, players will be easily persuaded to quit and will not have too many negative emotions.

Only when victory is within reach and they fail, will the mutual resentment between the two people reach its peak.

In principle, this is correct.

Gu Fan continued: "So, we designed it according to this goal.

"In the beginning, fake-AI is completely dormant and cannot be exposed immediately.

"Because at the beginning, the head of state and the governor are still inclined to cooperate, and there are not many buildings on the map. At this time, fake-AI is messing around, which is particularly easy to be discovered by players.

"How can it be exposed at the beginning?

"So, we must gradually improve the ability of fake-AI to disrupt.

"When the game enters the middle and late stages, the contradictions between the head of state and the governor are highlighted, and there are more buildings on the comet. This is the time for fake-AI to show its strength.

"However, if the fake-AI improvement mechanism is made time-dependent, it will lack flexibility and be easily exposed, because we cannot be sure whether there is any conflict between the head of state and the governor.

"So we thought of a way, which is to link the fake-AI's intelligence improvement level with the technology points in the technology tree.

"There are two advantages to doing this:

"First, when players click on technology points, it means that the game has entered the middle and late stages, and it can also achieve the goals we wanted to achieve before;

"Second, the more public opinion technology points players click, it often means that the conflict between the head of state and the governor is more acute.

"Because whether the head of state wants to be a dictator and kill the governor, or the governor wants to improve his prestige and override the head of state, clicking on public opinion technology points is necessary.

"And we have also made precise calculations. Clicking on public opinion technology points on only one technology line will release more than half of the fake-AI's intelligence and computing power. When both players are playing normally, it can only play a disruptive role, and there will be no other situation."

Lilith's eyes were as big as copper bells, and she probably understood.

Obviously, this design is also derived from the idea of ​​"letting fake-AI mess up with players".

In order to make this mess more natural, fake-AI's permissions in the game are gradually improved, so that it actually obtains the function of building in the game.

The production team also deliberately made double restrictions:

First, when the Archon is not in operation, the Archon's operation frequency and permission priority are still higher than fake-AI.

So as long as the Archon is building normally, no matter how smart the fake-AI is, its operation will only mess up and seriously interfere with the Archon's construction;

Secondly, if the player only clicks on the public opinion technology points of a single technology tree, then even if all the points are clicked, the intelligence of fake-AI will not develop to the extent of building alone.

But who would have thought that the situation encountered by the liver emperor jumped over both restrictions!

The Archon started to move, and did not perform any effective operations at all.

Out of curiosity, the liver emperor jumped the technology points related to public opinion on the two technology lines of the head of state and the consul, resulting in the full release of the intelligence of fake-AI, which can replace the consul for construction.

Lilith interrupted again: "Wait a minute!

"In that case, there are two new problems!

"First, why not directly limit the upper limit of fake-AI's intelligence? For example, limit the upper limit to about 50%!

"Second, why not design fake-AI's intelligence to only make trouble, not build?"

Gu Fan was silent for a moment: "Mr. Li, who said we have no restrictions?

"Of course we have restrictions.

"But the problem is that the official fake-AI program has been updated and iterated, and AI itself is constantly learning and evolving.

"And it's not as easy as you think to restrict fake-AI, just like there is a progress bar, and it is limited to 50% by dragging it.

"Because the AI ​​system is particularly complex and it is easy to affect the whole body, we have already imposed certain restrictions on the intelligence of fake-AI.

"Otherwise, what you'll see in the game right now will be a monster as terrifying as a script, rather than an AI that's only at the level of an ordinary archon.

"Boss Li, can you imagine how terrifying that scene will be? It's many times more terrifying than the current situation!"

The corners of Lilith's mouth twitched slightly, as if she had seen herself in another world line that was even more collapsed.