Problem with AI on PBW

RCCCL · #1 January 16th, 2006, 10:10 AM

A while back I missed a couple turns in a few games. After taking over again The AI continued to create ship designs and would create construction item if I had nothing being built.
This has been going on for sometime now, even though I have the AI completely off. It's not really causing any problem other than annoyance, since Every turn I'm deleting designs so I can find the ones I created and would like to build, and using all of my ready made possible design names.

The only suggestion I've gotten so far on fixing this is to turn the AI completely on for a single turn.

This did nothing other than an unprovoked intelligence attack and sending most of my ships on some unknown mission.

If anyone knows how to fix this problem, or even has suggestions, I'd appreciate it.

geoschmo · #2 January 16th, 2006, 10:30 AM

Make sure the ministers are all turned off. The only way the AI can do anything on a turn which you properly sumitted orders for is if there are ministers on.

The other alternative is that you aren't submitting a valid turn file. But then the AI would be controlling everything, and not just making designs and filling idle queues, and that doesn't sound like what you are describing.

If you don't think either of these is it, give me some more specifics about what game and which empire and I'll check it out.

RCCCL · #3 January 17th, 2006, 11:23 AM

I'm quite certain the Ministers are all off.

I'm actually having this problem in two games.

One is P&NSyndicateWars My race is the Corsairs

The other is Ecliptic Plane My race is the Dusk Empire

geoschmo · #4 January 17th, 2006, 01:19 PM

This is very odd. I've never heard anyone ever report such a problem before. If you could give me some more specifics it might help me get an idea of what is happening. I looked at your Ecliptic Plane game a bit but I didn't see anything that jumped out at me. Of course it's hard for me to distinguish between what you have done and what the AI has done. Is this happening on every turn? Give me some details about what the AI did on the last turn for example.

Let's keep our discussion to the Ecliptic game, since I'm a player in the Syndicate Wars game. And if you don't want to share anything in the Ecliptic game that other players could see, send it to me in an email.

Geoschmo

RCCCL · #5 January 18th, 2006, 11:10 AM

Ok, I'm doing a turn for the Ecliptic game right now.

This turn it did not add anything to my construction que, but there are 2 new designs in my design window that I did not create. One is for a spacestation, and the other is for an attack ship.

I don't know if your familiar with the Eclipse mod at all, but the space station is nothing but essentials and repair components, the ship is a design I coulnd't possibly make since it has more that 10 engine components, 13 to be exact.
In fact, I just tried to create a copy of my own to be sure, and it had a warning about not using more than 10 engines.

For the Syndicate wars, I've no compunction about telling you it keeps creating a satellite that contains no computer core, and 3 different transports that are exaclty the same design.

Captain Kwok · #6 January 18th, 2006, 11:13 AM

Perhaps what is happening is that your turns are not actually being submitted for the two games you are playing and so the AI is doing your turns. Geo should be able to tell you if that is the case.

You may also want to select "AI does not make changes during simultaneous games" in one of the empire options menus.