Will AI opponents display some aspect of self preservation or can we expect them all to fight to the death?asked by The Tick

No, they will definitely. So, one of the goals, we actually... I was in Germany for a week before I just came back this week and I had... so you may have seen some pictures from Bar Citizen in Frankfurt and Tony was actually over there as well as myself and actually quite a few people we brought over from the UK. We had a big AI mission sort of technical session so we're in the implementation stages of this sort of grand design, Tony's mentioned subsumption before but subsumption also works all the way up in the sort of meta group AI. So like organization of teams, organization of groups, above that would be missions, above that campaigns and it all ties into both stuff that we would do for Squadron 42 but also stuff in the dynamic universe of Star Citizen.So, we were all together kind of on the final lock down... final part of the design and sort of get everybody off and running to finish off the aspects to go beyond that. So, we're basically unifying all the AI and the mission stuff into one system that has different levels and scopes and sort of knows how to talk amongst itself very well. That will allow us to do things like the self preservation, have much more seemingly intelligent AI, because it isn't just about the tactical application of the situation like, 'ok, I'm in a dogfight, I need to win' or 'I'm in a firefight on the ground and I need to find cover'.It's about yes, you have all that but then you have the bigger goals like, what's my objective in this area, what's my goal today, what's my long term as a person, what's my long term goal as an organization and so, that's all what we've been working on. Definitely part of that will be to have, you know, self preservation and various things like morale and all the rest of the stuff you would get.