(02-10-2014, 09:04 PM)Tel-Aviv Wrote: Being AI limits a lot of potential, say humans do. For one, Logic and reason is broken and theres a limited stuff you can achieve with it. On the other, you don't have the sense of love,compassion,rage. I would simply let it be an NPC faction, or have the harvesters back. doing nothing but flying is boring to me. I guess the AI can't reach its full potential until it is expanded well enough to pose a threat to anyone, then it would be intresting.
I find your thesis arbitrairy, counter-productive, and demonstrating a rather opinionated ideal that an AI character is lacking in any type of RP potential. It is a matter of perspective, and just because yours indicates that there is no worth in having an AI faction, does not preclude that others lack the ability to sucessfully RP an AI.
As for your assertations, let's use my AI RP in comparason;
Background: Independant AI unit exploring the realms of Sirius comes across a small furry four-limbed mammal with a partially damaged ID tag, discovered in the cargo bay on one of the many trade runs throughout the various systems.
RP potential: This unit seeks to identify small furry mammal unit (curiosity), this unit assists small furry unit with energy (taking care of pet), this unit seeks to return small furry unit ( RP interaction with various factions), small furry unit is currently exploring cargo bay, so this unit will not drop cargo (pew pew vs pirates, etc), why does small furry unit makes variable harmonics that interacts with my sensors (hey, a purring kitten is kind of comfy, who knew).
The above are just some of the RP examples that I use in my interactions when I play. I don't need to be emotional in my encounters, I don't have to be just flying around being bored, and I ironically enough, get to chose how my AI character get's to achieve his full potential.
It is the player who defines the AI character with his or her RP skill (or even lack there of) in relation to how the race is percieved, not the AI template itself. Just my personal viewpoint of course.
Again, toasters cant have complexity as human do, it can'tbe curious like an organic matter with consciousness. Intelligence and consciousness are different, one leads to flying planes into buildings, the other invents super-collidors. In that sense, you either hostile or you are "neutral" - with some hostility towards others, but thats not very plausable. If the AI were close to say.. RoboCop, that would be intresting, but otherwise it is a bad version of zoners.
