In a nutshell, omniscience is really just a way to make your AI cheat. While your agent doesn't necessarily know everything, it simply means that they can know anything. In some ways, this can seem like the antithesis to realism, but often the simplest solution is the best solution. Allowing our agent access to seemingly hidden information about its surroundings or other entities in the game world can be a powerful tool to provide an extra layer of complexity.
In games, we tend to model abstract concepts using concrete values. For example, we may represent a player's health with a numeric value ranging from 0 to 100. Giving our agent access to this type of information allows it to make realistic decisions, ...
