AI Modding 101?

[Litcube]

Exactly. It's funny that you've noticed that I've been pulling out my hair over trying to Mod AI. There's alot of "re-inventing" the wheel going on out there, and it's a shame.

I've managed to get the basics of the design files and construction files down. If you look at the quantum reactor on your list (10000Kt), you only need one in a ship. There's a minimum of one, so anything ammount of KT over the ammount of the largest ship, will result in a maximum & minimum of one on a ship.

I've also managed to find out how to get the AI to design more than one types of attack ships. I still don't understand Oleg's method of using the "must have", and with my experimentatino, it doesn't work as well as I would have thought. Using boarding ships, kamakazie ships seems to work well. There's alot of hardcode in the AI. "Easy modding" my ***.


My biggest problem right now is the lack of momentum the AI seems to show. With no logical reason whatsoever, the AI will simply give up doing much of anything after a certain point in time. They quit expanding. I have no idea why.