Re: national armies?
Personally I would love the idea of player scripted AIs. There are some old threads here discussing possibilities. The defensive one, the diplomatic one, the barbarian horde, the reource collector, the magic researcher, the insane one which every 10 turns randomly selects from the list... The problem is that the game has to be written from the beginning with hooks (tags, variables) available for everything seperate from the variables that the game uses to process things. You cant write "if my_gold greater than 600" without a my_gold tag in the game. Such a huge rewrite would take alot of effort. Whether the Devs thought it was a good idea or not, its still not likely to happen soon.
Changes for a patch could be done if they are quick and simple. Try developing the rule you WISH the AI would use and test-play it. I disagree with the "even if it built a fort every" type of responses, but I dont know because I havent tested it.
Hmmmm I guess I COULD start a game with Ulm and some nation of my choice and try to play Ulm but the rules I made up. Writing an AAR here would be nice also. Force myself to ...
A) if commander has 10 light (any-type-of-troop) then build 1 heavy (same type of troop)
B) every 5 provinces build temple
C) every 10 provinces build castle
Does that sound about right? At turn 100 I could turn Ulm over to the AI for control and see if I can beat him.
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