AI system?

Goal: destroy enemy base first. Players: 2;1 human, 1 AI. I have all the rules writen down. Just a win32 application in the cmd box. I have a c++ through game design book, however im only halfway through. Im not sure if it goes over AI...

What is the process you go through to beat the enemy? (ie: battleship, random guesses; mastermind, logic or something of that sort; connect-4, place 4 pieces in a consecutive line)

Hmm. You would start with a number of units, a factory and a main base area. You start by placing your units (a max of say 5 spaces from the main base) i guess the battle ground will be an array and to place characters, you simply enter in coordinates. Any way. Its like an rts game. So the rounds would go by turns. First your turn (start with upgrade stage, then move stage, then attack stage)

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Hmm. That seems like it would take a while... I wouldnt even know where to start

No... Just no.....
-facepalm-

**Do not do this**

the best choice is a machine learning. google for it, there is a lot of samples. It would be quiet useful for you to implent the system of such kind.
And if everything is ok it will pwn every single player in your game(with small subset of meaning characteristics)

You may see it as a pre-mature optimization but when you're writing your own runtime, STL, etc it's not so evil..
Regardless, there's plenty of other implementations I have for atoi that was just one of them.

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I personally prefer neural networked "learning".. but I guess the type of "learning" you should use is dependent on the type of task you wish to preform.