In order to create a more realistic and dynamic form of artificial intelligence, A State Machine that only affects the entities really is not going to cut it. After doing some research, a method I came across called "Goal Oriented Action Planning," or "GOAP" for short, is a way to create broad goals for the artificial intelligence to complete, as well as pre-defined actions that the AI can use to complete it's goal, and it will logically choose what action is best. For example, if the civiliz...
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