This critique summarizes the work done since the initial Simulating Tribal Warfare in the Movable Feast Machine introduction.

My personal goal for this milestone: demonstration of complex behavior. Including:

• Base cohesion.
• Smarter infantry movement.
• Killing foreign tribes!

• AbstractTribal_Element: Base class, provides the tribe slider for all subclasses.
• Mine unit: spews out a bunch of Res.
• Base unit: Floats around gobbling up Res and spawning both Bases and Infantry.
• Infantry unit: Diffuses everywhere, doesn't do anything else.

• Bases have a “stability factor” where they avoid moving if they are in a structure.
• Infantry units have a “move direction” attribute and have an element parameter that dictates how often they change direction.
• Infantry units can kill foreign (tribal) units.

I might pull the following element parameters into the AbstractElement_Tribal class:

• Kill Odds
• Move/Kill Radius

It's possible that units may share similar behavior and should therefore all inherit from the same Abstract base class. They could then override Kill Odds and Move/Kill Radius as appropriate.

Mines have a finite amount of Res that they can produce. After all the Res are exhausted they become destroyed.

This unit takes a number of steps and then creates a Mine, sacrificing itself. Note that all tribes could use the resources produced by this Mine.