Dartz Wrote:If that's the case, what would Arthur's thoughts be on gamebots?When you talk about games Arthur's thoughts turn more to things like the Metaverse VR, but if you did it right then it'd be workable.
The Frigga Defence Force concept fell apart when they couldn't find people they were willing to trust with the secret of the Knight Sabers...... but a series of Wright Frames, being driven by FPS AI's to provide OpFor squads which will act asa reasonable facsimile of human infantry, using tactics, returning fire, and falling over screaming as appropriate, under the direction of TITANIC.
Their AI and overall intelligence and skill determined by adjusting the difficulty rating on the game. The game chosen determines the behaviour of the AI. STALKER AI might be more.... devious and bandit-like, but at the same time prone to blundering into objects. CoD AI varies between noobish and vulgar 12 year olds and genuinely decent modern infantry tactics....., Metal Gear Solid is better for one on one training..... and some game from Fenspace recent history..
They'd have to be tough, capable of being repaired easily after being shot up, and theoretically incapable of being modifed to use live ammunition in their rifles.
It's just a thought. And covers for the fact that the real reason for the FDF falling through was because I couldn't come up with interesting people to populate it, or fun things to do.
If you re-designed Wright Frames to use tougher, waved, materials, because you didn't care about whether they had detectable levels of handwavium, that might work. The existing Frames use a fibre-optic mesh for touch and heat sensors, embedded in medical latex. If you could replace that with something like diamondoid fibres and the skin with a waved hybrid between plastic and ceramic that might do. Diamondoid structural members, ultra hardened electronics, really good comms to their remote AIs...
They normally only fall over if they are programmed to. For extra sophistication, add a holo cloak of some sort, to simulate wounds.
Then, you'd use a Frame Maintenance Pod, which you gave the raw materials and rendered damaged Frames back up to full spec again. With, integrated careful checks to ensure no tampering with the safety protocols.
A weapon scanner system is tied into their bodies, with an array of hidden checkpoints, used in an irregular pattern, to check they are using game, not live, weapons. Unless an active weapons check with credible parameters, and double checks, succeeds, then they wont fire weapons. Critical parts of their electronics are routed through this system - you'd have to dismantle and rebuild, maybe with some redesign, to get a real soldier. And, find an AI with enough control bandwidth to run enough of them.
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