When I write a bug it becomes the core gameplay

Chapter 517 Two bugs

Gu Fan knew very well that at this time, the soldiers were very fast and he had to explain everything clearly as quickly as possible, otherwise it would be easy for Lilith to take advantage of the situation.

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

“The first one is a bug where the fake-AI replaces the Archon in construction.

“The second is a bug where the game does not automatically settle after the player completes the game.

"These two bugs look really outrageous. They are completely different from the underlying mechanism we designed. I was very confused at first."

Lilith looked like "I believe you are a ghost".

Were you confused at first?

Haha, 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 initially imagined.

"First of all, the first problem is the bug of fake-AI replacing the Archon in construction.

"It stands to reason that this situation is unlikely to happen. But to say it is completely impossible is not 100% consistent with the underlying code mechanism."

This beginning immediately shocked Lilith: "Wait a minute, Gu Fan, when did you start taking Mao Dun Literature!

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

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

"It stands to reason that 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 replaces the archon player in construction operations".

“So if players follow the normal game flow to experience the game, they can be sure that this situation will almost never happen 99% of the time.

"And the remaining 1% of cases are actually your request."

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

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

"I hope that as much as possible, two players and fake-AI can form an unstable three-body system. Is this your request?"

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

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

The reason is also very simple. Lilith has been defeated repeatedly 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 deduct the fake-AI module.

Because the official has built this system into the editor, it is intricate and complex, and it affects the whole body.

And the officials are constantly updating it.

Lilith didn't dare to develop her own engine, fearing that her subordinates would dig a bigger hole in the process of developing their own engine, so she could only make do with the official engine.

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

According to the original structure, this system is perfect.

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

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

In the process of intrigues between the consul and the head of state, it is possible that they did not particularly care who did it, or they did not realize that fake-AI could actually cause trouble.

At this time, conflicts naturally arise.

Imagine that two people were quarreling and suddenly discovered that there was an extra part on the production line, causing the entire industrial zone to shut down.

At this time, the head of state will definitely scold the consul for his nonsense, but the consul is also very unjust and will definitely defend himself and say that he did not do it. The head of state would say: If it weren’t for you, how could it still be me?

After a while, don’t you have this negative emotion?

In other words, when the Archon is working normally, fake-AI cannot actually play a dominant role, and any behavior it does will turn into troublesome and destructive behavior.

In addition, when the head of state player points technology points, there is a high probability that he will not mix points, but will specialize in a certain line. Therefore, Gu Fancai said that the probability of problems with this system is only 1%, and the remaining 99% of the cases are Nothing will go wrong.

This 1% situation requires two prerequisites:

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

The second is that the head of state players deliberately clicked on all the technological points related to public opinion and AI in the Archon line and the head of state line, constantly expanding the actual authority and intelligence level of fake-AI in the game.

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

"I understand for the moment, why does the leader player click on these technology points to increase the authority and intelligence level of fake-AI?" And why, after the authority and intelligence level of fake-AI reach a certain level, it will automatically build? "

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

"In the normal game process, we definitely hope that the heads of state and consuls will have greater conflicts and more difficult-to-solve problems as they reach the middle and late stages of the game, right?"

Lilith nodded, of course.

If there is a falling out as soon as they start, the players will be easily persuaded to quit, and there will not be too many negative emotions.

Only when victory is close at hand and the success falls short will the mutual complaints between the two people reach their peak.

In principle, this is correct.

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

“In the beginning, fake-AI was completely dormant and could not be exposed immediately.

"Because at the beginning, the heads of state and the consuls still tended to cooperate, and there were not many buildings on the map. At this time, the fake-AI was messing around, and it was particularly easy for players to discover it.

“How can you do it if you are exposed right from the start?

“So, we must gradually improve fake-AI’s ability to cause trouble.

“When the game enters the middle and late stages, the conflict between the head of state and the consul becomes prominent, and there are more buildings on the comet. This is the time for fake-AI to show its full potential.

"However, if the improvement mechanism of this fake-AI is made to be time-related, it will be inflexible and easily exposed, because we cannot be sure whether there is any conflict between the head of state and the consul.

“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.

"This has two benefits:

“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 a player points, it often means that the conflict between the head of state and the consul becomes more acute.

“Because whether the head of state wants to establish a dictatorship and kill the consul, or the consul wants to enhance his prestige and isolate the head of state, it is necessary to use public opinion technology points.

"Furthermore, we have also made precise calculations. Only clicking on the public opinion technology point on one technology line will free up more than half of the fake-AI's intelligence and computing power. When both players are playing the game normally, it can only cause trouble. function, there would be no other situation.”

Lilith's eyes were as wide as bells, she probably understood.

Obviously, this design also comes from the idea of ​​"let fake-AI cause trouble for players".

In order to make this kind of trouble more natural, the authority of fake-AI in the game has been gradually increased, so that it can actually obtain the function of construction in the game.

The production team also deliberately implemented double restrictions:

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

So as long as the Archon is under normal construction, no matter how intelligent the fake-AI is, its operation will only cause trouble and seriously interfere with the construction of the Archon;

Secondly, if the player only clicks on the public opinion technology points of a single technology tree, then even if they click on all the public opinion technology points, the intelligence of the fake-AI will not be developed enough to build on its own.

But who would have thought that in the situation Gan Emperor encountered, he would jump over both of these restrictions!

The Archon was arrogant and did not perform any effective operations at all.

Out of curiosity, the Gan Emperor jumped on the technology points related to public opinion in the two technological lines of the Head of State and the Archon. As a result, the intelligence of fake-AI was fully released, and it could replace the Archon for construction.

Lilith interrupted again: "Wait a minute!

“In that case, there will be two new problems!

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

"Second, why not design the intelligence of fake-AI so that it can only cause trouble but cannot 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 fake-AI program has been officially updated and iterated, and the AI ​​itself is constantly learning and evolving.

“And it’s not as easy as you think for us to limit fake-AI. It’s like having a progress bar and dragging it to limit it to 50%.

“Because the AI ​​system is extremely complex and can easily affect the whole body, we have placed certain restrictions on the intelligence of fake-AI.

"Otherwise, what you see in the game at this time will be a monster that is as terrifying as the script, rather than an AI that is only equivalent to the level of an ordinary Archon.

"Mr. Li, can you imagine how terrifying that scene would be? It would be many times more terrifying than this situation now!"

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

(End of chapter)