Concept Focus: MMO Dynamic Mission Generation

robert4818 · 2006-05-15T13:42:00

I'll start off by saying this is NOT a full fleged idea, its merely a concept focus. Imagine an MMO with two warring factions genre does not matter. Each faction is controlled by a separate AI program script to generate each sides overall strategy. There are numerous territories in the game world. And the AI decides in a Risk type concept of which territory to attack, and which to bump up defense in. The players have nothing to do with the strategy part of the game (yes design decision). Once the decisions are made by the computer, it begins generating random-style missions directed at various things. Gathering supplies (gather quests), Intel runs into enemy territory (dungeon style crawls), Spec ops raids (kill quests etc). Over the week, the computer also pays attention to the other side, and decides where to re-allocate resources in an attempt to bolster defenses. When the battle goes down, (depending on game design) the computer resolves it, OR there is a massive PVP/PVE battle, where the status of supplies, available NPC bots etc vary depending on the the number of completed quests, varying based on type, also the number of failures affect the out come. After the battle, the two AI's stop, take a look at the situation and how its changed and generates its plan for the next week.... Over all the concept here is that the computer dynamically generates the missions based off of the game world, then turns around and dynamically affects the game world based off of mission results. What do you think.