Patent ID: 8554705

Claim:
A method comprising: receiving, at a server, a request from each of a plurality of human users to participate in multi-user interactive graphical simulation; determining that a first user of the plurality of human users has not yet completed a training requirement to participate in an interactive session of the graphical simulation, wherein each interactive session includes one or more other human users from the plurality of human users; responsive to the determining: providing instructions, to the first user regarding how to complete an objective within the graphical simulation, and executing, a training session through a user interface associated with the first user, said training session providing the first user an interactive graphical computing environment through which the first user attempts to achieve the objective, wherein during said training session the first user is interacting only with a plurality of automated participants, each automated participant controlled by a bot having a predetermining level of artificial intelligence, and wherein during said training session the first user is prevented from interacting with any other human participants; determining whether the first user has achieved the objective; adjusting the predetermined level of artificial intelligence of the plurality of automated participants to a higher predetermined level of artificial intelligence when the first user has achieved the objective; and repeating the executing, determining whether the first user has achieved the objective, and adjusting steps until the first user has achieved the objective with the plurality of automated participants having a predefined threshold level of artificial intelligence; and only after determining that the first user has achieved the objective in the training session with the one or more automated participants having the predefined threshold level of artificial intelligence, permitting the first user to enter an interactive session, that includes one or more other human participants.