Re: Dominions 2. AI. Suggestions, that how to fix it.
How about something simpler that would be "usually good enough". Such as, for every X number of provinces (5?)you own you should have a castle. Find a province with no castle, no neighboring castle, and no neighbor owned by another player, then build there. Maybe it should also have a minimum number of neighbors. 3? 4? 5?
And what about the cost? Should it be "do this before all recruiting"? I think that has worked for me (in fact Ive come to realize that I play rather like an AI). Doing it that way would tend to automatically provide some controlling limits since the AI would rarely (should rarely if other formulas are done right) be able to afford a castle at the beginning of a turn without saving up for one.
So the AI sees that it has 10 provinces and only 1 castle. If it finds a spot where a province has at least 4 neighbors with no castles, and none of them owned by another player, and IF it has enough money, then it builds a castle there. Oh yeah, and increase the defence (I always do that where I have a castle)
OH wait a minute. That would be better if it came first. In a province it feels is going to be a castle, it should raise defence to (21?) first and then build a castle. Hm that could get expensive.
OK stop me. I think too much in the mornings.
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