One thing that might be worth changing/clarifying in the victory conditions is how a Friendly AI wins alongside its creator. At the moment, in order for a Creator/FAI team to win (assuming you’re sticking with Diplomacy mechanics) they first have to collect 18 supply centres between them and then have the AI transfer all its control back to the human; I don’t think even the friendliest of AIs would willingly rebox itself like that.
Even worse, a friendly AI which has been given a lot of control might accidentally “win” by itself even though it doesn’t want to. If this corresponds to the FAI taking control of everything and then building a utopia in its creator’s image (since it’s Friendly this is what it would do if it took control), this should be an acceptable winning condition for the creator.
I think a better victory condition would be that if a creator and FAI collect 18 supply centres between them, then they win the game together and both get 50 points.
This method does have one disadvantage in that a human can prove that an AI is not friendly if the game should have ended if it was, but I don’t expect this to affect much because by the time this comes into effect either the unfriendly AI is sufficiently strong that they should have backstabbed their creator already, or they are sufficiently weak (And thus of the 18 centres held by human and AI almost all are held by the human) that the creator should soon win.
At the moment, in order for a Creator/FAI team to win (assuming you’re sticking with Diplomacy mechanics) they first >have to collect 18 supply centres between them and then have the AI transfer all its control back to the human; I don’t >think even the friendliest of AIs would willingly rebox itself like that.
This is exactly what I had in mind. :) It should be harder for FAI to win than for UFAI to win, since FAI are more constrained. I think it is quite plausible that one of the safety measures people would try to implement in a FAI is “Whatever else you do, don’t kill us all; keep us alive and give us control over you in the long run. No apocalypse-then-utopia for you! We don’t trust you that much, and besides we are selfish.” Hence the FAI having to protect the supply centers of the human, and give over its own supply centers to the human eventually.
Why wouldn’t it give over its supply centers to the human? It has to do that to win! I don’t think it will hurt it too much, since it can make sure all the enemies are thoroughly trounced before beginning to cede supply centers.
One thing that might be worth changing/clarifying in the victory conditions is how a Friendly AI wins alongside its creator. At the moment, in order for a Creator/FAI team to win (assuming you’re sticking with Diplomacy mechanics) they first have to collect 18 supply centres between them and then have the AI transfer all its control back to the human; I don’t think even the friendliest of AIs would willingly rebox itself like that. Even worse, a friendly AI which has been given a lot of control might accidentally “win” by itself even though it doesn’t want to. If this corresponds to the FAI taking control of everything and then building a utopia in its creator’s image (since it’s Friendly this is what it would do if it took control), this should be an acceptable winning condition for the creator.
I think a better victory condition would be that if a creator and FAI collect 18 supply centres between them, then they win the game together and both get 50 points.
This method does have one disadvantage in that a human can prove that an AI is not friendly if the game should have ended if it was, but I don’t expect this to affect much because by the time this comes into effect either the unfriendly AI is sufficiently strong that they should have backstabbed their creator already, or they are sufficiently weak (And thus of the 18 centres held by human and AI almost all are held by the human) that the creator should soon win.
This is exactly what I had in mind. :) It should be harder for FAI to win than for UFAI to win, since FAI are more constrained. I think it is quite plausible that one of the safety measures people would try to implement in a FAI is “Whatever else you do, don’t kill us all; keep us alive and give us control over you in the long run. No apocalypse-then-utopia for you! We don’t trust you that much, and besides we are selfish.” Hence the FAI having to protect the supply centers of the human, and give over its own supply centers to the human eventually.
Why wouldn’t it give over its supply centers to the human? It has to do that to win! I don’t think it will hurt it too much, since it can make sure all the enemies are thoroughly trounced before beginning to cede supply centers.