One of the fun things about doing a game like Clockwork Empires is that you genuinely have no idea what you’re doing some days. Some of our systems haven’t held up through the development process as well as they could, and it’s a constant game of trying to figure out how to extend them and how to refactor them. Case in point: our military AI originally used the same priority system as everything else, but now runs with a decision tree on top of the priority system. Social cues use a proper utility system *below* the priority system, etc., and there is some talk of cleaning the actual jobs up as well to not use the priority system either and to have everything in the game now run on a behavioural tree.
There are two types of people in the world, those with the shovel and, well, also a gun right if you need one. Where was this going again?
