Marcus Aurelius
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The question is, what was the reason for banning Baratorch?
According to Baratorch, Sav, at his request, passed on all his developments to him, which were obviously intended for the development of Hota. In my opinion, the agreement is quite reasonable and logical. Perhaps Sav himself planned to create an AI for Hota in the future, and involving Baratorch only shortened the development time.
In my opinion, it would be better to add AI to both SoD and Hota and see what people would play, but no, a promise was made.
Once again, the promise given by Baratorch is not the main reason for the absence of AI in SoD (according to him):
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That is, I cannot create an AI for SoD because I am bound by my word.
And even if I weren't, the AI code is now tailored for Hota; the implementation for SoD would be structurally different. The fact that I focused on one platform (Hota) also reduced the development time.
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The intelligent AI interruption algorithms that will allow you to play with AI until the very end will be developed jointly with Sav or even by him alone (I'm not sure if I'll have time).
So, the most advanced and complete AI is only possible within the framework of Hota.
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