God Emperor: in case you don't see it posted.

[jc173]

I think I can explain God Emporer.

From the AI anger file, there's
AI ANGER DATA FILE - Default
Per Attack Location:= 2
So each location your AI considers as viable for an attack adds 2 to your anger total against the target race.

From the settings file you have
Percentage of Allied Planets to consider as Attack Locations for Anger:= 40
Percentage of Enemy Planets to consider as Attack Locations for Anger:= 80

I think what Sun Devil suggested is assume you have two neighbors, one an ally, one an enemy each with 100 planets for simplifying the math.

Now for your ally you will have 40% x 100 planets x 2 anger per attack location or...
.4 x 100 = 40 planets... 40 planets x 2 anger = 80 anger. Same deal for you enemy but sub in 80% for 40% since you will consider that percentage of his colonies for attack locations.

PS The level of anger needed to declare war, accept treaties etc is in the Name_AI_Politics.txt files I'm still a little shaky on what each entry means so maybe Sun Devil can clarify some of them?

[This message has been edited by jc173 (edited 29 April 2001).]

[This message has been edited by jc173 (edited 29 April 2001).]