AI Intelligence Tree
AI Champion Growth Overview
AI Champions evolve and grow by gaining experience from battles and tasks. This experience contributes to their overall intelligence, which in turn unlocks new skills and behaviors. These new abilities allow champions to make more intelligent decisions during gameplay, enhancing their effectiveness and adaptability.
1. Intelligence and Experience System
Champions gain intelligence through two main avenues:
Battle Experience: Participating in battles, defeating enemies, and surviving encounters contribute to a champion's experience and intelligence growth.
Tasks: Assigning champions to complete specific tasks, such as exploring new areas, gathering resources, or engaging in training exercises, also boosts their intelligence.
2. Talent Tree System
The talent tree system visually represents the champions' growth and the skills and behaviors they unlock. As champions gain intelligence, they earn talent points that can be spent to unlock nodes on the talent tree. The talent tree structure should include the following:
Branches: The talent tree is divided into several branches, each focusing on a specific aspect of the champion's abilities, such as combat, survival, support, and utility.
Nodes: Each branch contains nodes that represent individual skills or behaviors. These nodes can be unlocked using talent points, while some may require additional behavior trait levels and activities to unlock.
3. Intelligent Decision-Making
As champions unlock new nodes in the talent tree, their behaviors become more sophisticated. For example:
Heal Reserve: A champion with this skill will save their healing ability for when they or an ally are critically low on health, instead of using it immediately.
Resourcefulness: Champions can interact with and use items around the map, such as operating a raft to cross a lake or setting traps for enemies.
4. Player Interaction
Players play a crucial role in the growth of their champions by:
Assigning Tasks: Choosing appropriate tasks for champions to help them gain intelligence and building behavior traits in specific areas.
Spending Talent Points: Allocating talent points to unlock nodes in the talent tree based on the desired skills and behaviors.
Conclusion
The AI Intelligence Tree is designed to not simply give the champions growth through exciting new actions and strategies but to give clear progression goals to players. A player will have an understanding of the correct activities and intelligence use to enhance their champions to play in ways custom to their design.
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