Radiant AI, R2D2 in progress? Options

[Hukai The Wandering]

Here's an example of the radiant AI in action. I'm following this guy through the city after he gets done working. He walks into his house. I'm 50 feet behind him so I don't get noticed and by the time I reach te door he's locked it. So, remembering that someone mention that he has a backyard I walk around the block trying to find it. I see a small gate that leads to a fenced-in grassy area and some guy tilling the land. Behind him is a door. I open the gate, walk past the guy working, and behold: the door leads into the back of the very house I needed to get in to. I crouch down, attemping to sneak inside. For a few seconds I wait, to make sure that no one sees me; and right before I enter the building some *honoured user*(cus word) inside locks it! Now, I'm screwed; I can't get inside and I have to wait another day before I can get anything done! All this pain thanks to the revolutionary AI created by the gods at Bethesda.

Any more stories, events, or just weird happenings having to do with RAI? Put 'em here!

This post has been edited by Hukai The Wandering: Mar 25 2006, 01:09 AM

[davidzo]

I don't think the Radiant AI is much of an improvement compared to the Ai in MW. Of course it is more realistic overall. Sometimes it makes quests harder and more boring especially when you have to spy on somebody.

I was hunting in the region north of Chorrol when the dark horese courier lady was attacked by bandits in front of me on the street. She immediately got off and ran away into the wilderness while the one bandit shot arrows on her and the other was slashing her Back with his axe until i pulled him down. I killed the bandits and a wolf just in time before she would have been his meal. Then she returned straight to the horse with some arrows still in her body. When i asked her she just got angry and said she had no time to talk and road away immediately. is that kind to someone who just reescued your life?
I mean, the AI is good for normal things, but it is not flexible for stories outside of the normal preprogrammed quest-scheme.

Another time when i sneaked into someones house in Bruma to assasinate a person for the dark brotherhood in a certain manner that it would look like an Accident , i overheard the conversations that the man and his servant had because i was a little early and hat to wait. They greeted each other as if they met a stranger on a street and told various things. A few seconds after their conversation they started anew with greeting and all as if they just met. They wished each other a good day and said good buy but a few seconds later they began again with the same conversation. In this all they didn't move a bit and stand in front of each other in the main room of the house. So i think whats missing in the AI are the connections that people have between each other. a servant of a nobleman should threat his master other than a beggar and a wife should adress her husband different than a foreign traveler does to her husband.

The radiant AI is one quite capable thing, but it is still very much limited...

This post has been edited by davidzo: Mar 29 2006, 11:41 PM