by dabino » Thu Nov 03, 2011 8:30 am
Interestingly, I have started with almost the same approach, though I called it Field / Potential. In my model each object(s) "casts" a field on the mao, which potential is a function of pathlength from the object(s). Then ants just go into direction of potential decline. Now I have up to 7 diferent fields, which define such behaviors like food gathering, attack, defence, exploration etc, and I can combine them accoridng to strategic situation.
Unfortunately, this approach is nothing without good tactical algorythm.