[UI] Pet collecting improvements

Today , I want to talk about the algorithm of collecting for the pet which is so bad . At the moment , the algorithm is a simple greedy which choose the closest resource if it is in the range of the pet .
Pet as artificial intelligence should be a lot smarter and choose the best situation . For example , at the moment if he has let's say a box at 10 units distance and 3 boxes at 12 units distance in the opossite direction , it will choose the closest one even if the profit from the other 3 would have been higher .
For this reason , I suggest that pet should use an algorithm like dynamic programming because we already have a range and he knows the positions of the boxes in that range . Probably it isn't so easy to develop this algorithm ( like the one at the moment ) because it contains many variables as the time , speed of the pet , of the collection per resource , but it will increase the eficiency of the pet a lot .
Another recommendation is that for every position of a box from the range to have a variable which memorize if the resource is being collected at the moment because if the resource is being colected , pet can't collect it first because he needs to move to that position and than to start collecting .
Not in the last , the pet should cooperate with his ,,master" because at the moment it competes with him . For example , now I am forced to collect several resources before he come to manage to make it split from me to collect in two places . So the idea would be to know where the direction of the ship is and to search in a way another direction which contains resources too ( and if he founds another one , to choose it ) .


I don't expect all ideas ( especially the first one which I think is the toughest ) to be implemented but even one will help the players a lot . Now , many people don't use the pet because they consider it ,, too stupid " to be profitable because he acts in a primitive way .
( Sorry for the writing mistakes ) .

 

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Enjoy the game.

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