Agents

Agents specifications

About behaviors

Here are the agents I plan to develop. Agents control several Behaviors to achieve a given goal.

specifications

AgentBase

At start, an agent is given

• a set of units
• a name for debug and fun

All agents have

• stressLevel

The stress level is an instance of the StressLevel class.

• sequences

A set of sequences used to check the behaviors statuses at regular intervals.

• static agents

List of all the Agents created so far.

All behaviors can

• createAgent

Creates an other agent of the given type.

• destroyAgent

Destroy an agent.

ChiefAgent

Create the other agents and dispatch the units among them. It is the first created agent, initialized with all available units.

It has these properties

• machinaSexualAgent

Reference to an agent of type MachinaSexual

• destroyerAgent

Reference to an agent of type DestroyerAgent

• workingAgent

Reference to an agent of type WorkingAgent

• builderAgent

Reference to an agent of type BuilderAgent

It does these actions in this order

• create a BuilderAgent and give it a proportion of the units - builders only
• create a WorkingAgent object and give it a proportion of the units - workers only
• create a MachinaSexual agent and ask him for a few more units, depending on the available resources

MachinaSexual

In charge of making units.

DestroyerAgent

Attacks a city.

WorkingAgent

Works, i.e. harvest resources.

BuilderAgent

This Agent is in charge of building, it is the only one who is able to build entities - not units. It is in charge of finding the right places, of building the right amount of building types.

This Agent handles these behaviors

• PopulationWatcher
• OnDemandBuilder
• DefenseWatcher

At start, create the behaviors and give the OnDemandBuilder an amout of units, depending on the available resources and the available units. The