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Offline Bobby Buns

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Mod Suggestion: Friendly Ai
« on: May 03, 2015, 03:36:57 am »
I don't know if this is possible in the engine, but some police or army officers on terror sites would be cool. Is it possible?

Offline ivandogovich

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Re: Mod Suggestion: Friendly Ai
« Reply #1 on: May 03, 2015, 04:08:34 am »
At this point the game engine doesn't handle that at all, and its beyond the scope of recreating the original game which is basically the OpenXcom charter.  Its something that quite a few folks have brought up, but unless someone wanted to code up a variation of the game themselves, I don't see it happening.  The beauty of an open source game is that the code is available for anyone to do just that. :)

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Re: Mod Suggestion: Friendly Ai
« Reply #2 on: May 03, 2015, 04:26:12 am »
yes, this is something I would like very much, but it doesn't look like it will happen anytime soon :)  Unless, someone picks up the torch as Ivan mentioned to write the code themselves, it won't happen.   I still toy with the idea of doing it myself, but right now, I'm focused on doing mod installation and updates.

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Re: Mod Suggestion: Friendly Ai
« Reply #3 on: May 03, 2015, 10:21:11 am »
I think Yankes toyed with that idea for his OXCom Extended, but I don't know if/when etc. :) As for writing the code, afair Warboy said it might be almost as simple as copy-pastying enemy AI onto civilian AI (arming them is another matter, though).

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Re: Mod Suggestion: Friendly Ai
« Reply #4 on: May 03, 2015, 10:21:39 am »
Well, judging from the thread title, I was expecting something more like



:)