[Phoib]

ok, anyone any ideas why the america AI would fubar if I do the following:

1. Edit art settings.
2. remove all besides China and America from playertemplate
3. remove power upgrades from powerplants
4. kick the buildings in seperate ini's
5. remove some buildings from commandset.

Anyone ANY ideas?

The hard AI fubars while the medium one works...
The hard AI builds 4 Dozers and then they sit quitely and do nothing. Whats the first thing the hard AI builds for America anyways?

[alasz11]

I think the hard AI builds the the control rods upgrade right away, because it "cheats" to get extra money, so it can afford it. Edit the Skirmish Scripts so that this is removed, and the AI will skip the control rods and continue its construction normally.

[CodeCat]

Well, I noticed the AI mainly gets FUBARred (I love that word ) when it is either:

1. Trying to build two things at the same time. It can't figure out which to build first to it ends up getting stuck. You need to set a prerequisite for the triggers so that it will only build one of the buildings when the other is finished.

2. Trying to build something it can't build. This means that when you execute a script that tells the AI to build something it can't build (yet), it gets stuck.

The AI will build something though if it is capable of building but all of its dozers are occupied. In that case it sometimes builds an extra dozer (not sure on this). This happened to me once too: http://www.deezire.net/modules.php?n...ewtopic&t=4616.

[Phoib]

Now it just sells its command center...

[DeeZire]

A heck of a lot of the skirmish AI depends on the presence of power plants. Many conditions are set that depend on the presence of power plants and/or the amount of power the computer player has - and the conditions are not just laid in the base buiolding scripts either. My guess is that changing or removing the power plants has got it stumped.

The AI ignores preprequisites when base building, so the base building scripts require a power plant before almost anything else to make things fair (and to make it look like the AI is obeying prerequisite build-orders) - remove the power plant, and it wont get very far.

[Phoib]

Well, thats the problem. It can build the normal AmericaPowerplant, but not the pwer upgrade. Thats whats getting the Medium AI going, but Hard not.

BTW, China functions, AFAIK, as it should be.