SUGGESTION: AI troop building algorithm

[Arralen]

I think this should fix most issues with the AI troopbuilding.
I dunno how squad assembly or troop gathering from provinces work, so maybe this has to be tweaked accordingly.

Could anyone else than me use this algorithm in a test game to see if it works out? Could be that I'm quite biased and don't see obvious weeknesses...

for call buildcastle go here BUILDCASTLE

code:

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0)  IF ERMOR(Ash, soul)OR PANGAEA(CarrWoods) GOTO 2)

    CALL BUILDCASTLE     



    IF (availablemoney) STILL >400 

        BUILD lab where's a special commander(mage) to build

    IF (numberofprovinces)>(numberofcastles)*4

     AND   ((turnnumber)-(numberofcastles)*10)*10%=true SAVEMONEYTURN=true



1)  Build troops at castles in following order

     - most expensive mage commander (max. 1/2 of available money)

     - assassin/spy/bard etc. IF ((turnnumber)-5)*10%=true

     - priest w/o magic IF (turnnumber)*3<(numberofpriests)

     - most heavily armed commander IF (turnnumber)>5

     - scout



     - holy troop IF (bless effect)=true

     - heavy troopsress)>14 with (strat move)>1, best move first IF 2 pieces possible

     - heavy troopsress)>14 IF 3 pieces

     - medium troops: (ress)>11 IF 3 pieces

     - archers: IF Long-/Compound Bow

     - light troops: (ress)>7 IF 3 pieces

     - fill with light archers

     [if there are multiple troops that fit a condition, mix equally]

     [bless effect=true IF 3 pathes @4 OR 1@6/1@4 OR 1@9 or better]



2)  Build special troops

     - special commanders IF mage

       OR

       IF special troops ARE undead, amphibic, flyers

     - build as many special troops as ressources, (availablemoney)/2, (commandvalue) allows

 

3)  Build patrols at province w/o castle and less than 20 troops on patrol

     IF borders enemy prov.

      OR has lab, but no castle

      OR has only 2 land neighbours

      OR has 3 neighbours, but only 1 owned

     

     THAN BUILD

     - most mobile commander IF (troopnumber)>(commandvalue)

     - highest movement[for patrol]

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edited:
if you have trouble deciphering the "code" part, use the font size option of your browser. There's no way I could fiddle with it using the BB code here...
***!!, *URL* tag doesn't work within *code* tag, so I had to put the URL for the castle buildind algorithm seperatly

[ April 16, 2004, 06:45: Message edited by: Arralen ]

[Gandalf Parker]

Finally. A real and testable suggestion which isnt overloaded with nation-specifics.

[HotNifeThruButr]

You spelled assassin wrong, I'm not a modder, but I think programming is very specific about spelling.

[Arralen]

I was thinking about something definitly more complex, but than it dawned to me that such a solution wouldn't work:

The more complex the building algorithm gets, the more you'll have to account for the complexity of the real situation.
But than we would be talking about writing a real, albeit small, AI for each nation seperatly. It's a bit a "all or nothing" situation here. So I went for "allmost nothing" (some call it "keep it simple, stupid", but I always wonder if the comma is ment to be there ").

Anyhow, here's my first draft, numbers will shurely have to be tweaked and some things won't work with the rest of the game/code in this way, but we'll see.


@HotNifeThruButr

**** you, ****** grudger !!
This is pseudocode anyway - nothing to put in a mod file.
Would be cool to have AI scripts, but we won't see that for years I guess.
And it's "hashishin" or something like that (can't remember exactly) in reality. If anyone is intered, look it up for yourself.

[ April 16, 2004, 06:36: Message edited by: Arralen ]

[HotNifeThruButr]

...

Just tryin' to be helpful

[Arralen]

And I put a smily in there... maybe I'll put some more ...

But "asashin", "assassine", "ashassinne" or whatever wouldn't make any difference - the devs would have to turn it into C code anyway.

Players could print it out and try running a test nation/game with it, though. Think they wouldn't be that sensitive vs. spelling, would they?