design pb : boarding ships and multiple fighters

[trooper]

I've looked at several designCreation files, but I still can't understand what makes a good boarding ship. I don't even manage to put boarding parties on it !

Can anyone explain me what must be in the design.txt file ?

[ March 22, 2003, 08:05: Message edited by: trooper ]

[Master Belisarius]

The magic words for the component are "Boarding Attack".
My advice is that you take a look to AIs that use it... think is the best way to learn, and after it, doing test and trial.
An AI that use Boarding Parties is the Space Vikings.

[Fyron]

Generally, you have to include components by their ability, not by name, in the design files.

[trooper]

Yeah, the design works.

But my AI doesn't seem to like boarding ships...
It's a height for a pirate race !

I put entries like this in the vehicleconstruction.txt file in every AI state :

Entry 49 Type := Boarding Ship
Entry 49 Planet Per Item := 30
Entry 49 Must Have At Least := 3

But the AI prefers building attack ships, carriers, mine and satellite layers...

Any idea ?

[Rexxx]

Originally posted by trooper:
Yeah, the design works.

But my AI doesn't seem to like boarding ships...
It's a height for a pirate race !

I put entries like this in the vehicleconstruction.txt file in every AI state :

Entry 49 Type := Boarding Ship
Entry 49 Planet Per Item := 30
Entry 49 Must Have At Least := 3

But the AI prefers building attack ships, carriers, mine and satellite layers...

Any idea ?

49 entries are a lot. Maybe the AI is not able to reach it, completely busy with fulfilling the first 48 or not having enough space yards and/or resources.
I would propose a simple test, move this entry up in the construction-file. I'm pretty sure that the AI will build them.

[oleg]

1) AI does not reach the entry for boarding ship - it is still trying to fulfill requests for earlier vehicle_creation.txt calls
2} some typo in ship name/class. Check design_creation file again.
3) Are you making AI from scratch or modernizing some other race AI ? Several TDM races uses "boarding ship" for other ship types.