Proportions Mod version 3.0.3 posted

TheDeadlyShoe · #1 February 15th, 2005, 01:21 AM

I tried fiddling with it myself when 3.0.1 came out, but it's difficult to script a good AI when you arn't too good at the game yourself. *g*

Toryin · #2 February 15th, 2005, 11:33 AM

1. It looks like several of the AI(s) are missing colonial development in their research tree. Hence when they get to a stage that the planets are supposed to build a mineral/organic/research/etc modifier such as minor city, the only thing to build is a Cultural Center.

One AI with this problem for example is:
XiChung_AI_Research.txt
XiChung_AI_Construction_Facilities.txt

I'll test this later to see if it fixes the problem.

TheDeadlyShoe · #3 February 17th, 2005, 09:56 PM

anyone got any bright ideas to force the AI not to build colony ships till it has colony tech?

*EDIT*

The various advanced Radioactives extraction buildings do not have the "Drop Troops" ability. On purpose or bug?

Atrocities · #4 February 17th, 2005, 09:59 PM

Is the AI set up to play well in the mod? I have never checked and was wondering.

Fyron · #5 February 17th, 2005, 10:20 PM

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TheDeadlyShoe said:
anyone got any bright ideas to force the AI not to build colony ships till it has colony tech?

You could do what I did to solve this problem in Adamant. Add a new set of 0 kT, 1 hit point components, one for each colony type. Give them each a unique AI tag (NOT the colony ability). Make these AI tags "Must Have" abilities for each colony ship design, as appropriate. Now, the AI can not design a colony ship until it has these components available, which incidentally require exactly the same technology as the colony modules.

TheDeadlyShoe · #6 February 17th, 2005, 10:55 PM

Fyron: That sure would help, although I'm not sure there's any ability tags left in Proportions!

Atrocities: No, the AI is Craptacular at least in 3.0+; I never tried the previous versions, though.

*EDIT*

The AI I'm working on uses Crystal tech. I required Shield Generation From Damage, and that did the trick. (The way it's layed out, Crystalline Technology researches directly after the tenth level of Rock Planet Colonizers, which finishes at about turn 15-16.) Obviously not universal, but it works for now.

Toryin · #7 February 17th, 2005, 11:21 PM

Eh, adding colonial development did not help the cultural center oddity. I differ to more seasoned AI modders on fixing it, but it has to do with the Cultural Center still being the "better" choice when an AI has to choose on Resource Generation Modifiers.

Adding Colonial development instead made somethings worse, as the AI in several cases decided to start building Minor Spaceport Cities instead of Spaceports.

Atrocities: Minus this Cultural Center bug, some AI's are good, some not so. In my game even with 4 planets stuck on Cultural Centers, the CueCappa are expanding fast enough to be a good challenge.

TheDeadlyShoe · #8 February 17th, 2005, 11:25 PM

Toryin;

Be careful. If the AI researches Space Yards 2, it will retrofit all of its Space Station SYs into useless hulks. I've required Large Space Stations for AI station construction to get around this, but it hugely slows down their early game. No better ideas, though.

As for the Cultural Centers, there's nothing particularly wrong with Minor Spaceport Cities, even if they take a while!

*EDIT*

I am utterly confused as to why my Mining Colonies are building Energy Transmission Lens.