Add support for small state machines for AI

[Garanas]

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[relent0r]

Jip are you able to provide a little blurb on how an AI dev would initialize a state machine from the skirmish AI? I'm only used to getting platoons to do things via the platoon former manager.

[Garanas]

@relent0r can you show me where the current platoon AI is applied to a platoon?

[relent0r]

The current entry point is here.

fa/lua/sim/PlatoonFormManager.lua

Line 123 in 17be322

ManagerLoopBody = function(self,builder,bType)

So we assume that the Builder has passed all the requirements. It hits this, sets a few bits. Then checks if it can form the platoon based on the template provided and the units available using the CanFormPlatoon. Then it uses the FormPlatoon function and does a SetAIPlan based on the function in the platoontemplate's Plan property, it will fork a function within the platoon.lua file.
Then if there are any addons or behaviors it does that afterwards.

[ageekhere]

Some suggestions

        self.Identifier = string.format("Default - %d", GetUniqueIdentifier()) --removed self.Identifier, it may be unnecessary? 
	--move local to top
	--use pairs
	ToSync = function(self, key, value)
        local tick = GetGameTick()
        local syncState = self.StateSync
		local sync = Sync
        local syncStateMachines = sync.StateMachines or {}
        if syncState.Tick < tick then
            for k,v in pairs(syncState) do 
                syncState[k] = nil
            end
            syncState.Tick = tick
        end

    end,

[Garanas]

@ageekhere we're not at the phase to optimize yet, first rule of improving the performance of any snippet of code is to have it functional first 😉

[Garanas]

Closed in favor of the one introduced by #4858