Some AI mod questions

[Atrocities]

You should visit the MOD WORKS at SE.net

And read the Modding 101 tutorial by Fyron.

[Fyron]

Atrocities said:
And read the Modding 101 tutorial by Fyron.

It does not cover AI, so the basic AI modding tutorials stickied in the SE4 AI FAQ forum at modworks are a good place to start.

SE4 AI FAQ

[Chad]

Thanks for the info guys. The links especially helped. After looking around a bit more, I'm not sure just how much effort I want to put into this. With SEV being talked about, it kind of robs my motivation to work on SEIV (although not to play it). If that makes any sense.

Still, the info provided will help me debugg some problems I run into. Not to mention it is just kind of fun to read anyhow. Hehe, wish I had read the post on updating SEIV Ai's to Gold earlier. Would have saved me alot of trouble.

[Tampa_Gamer]

Chad-

I think one of the best ways to understand how to mod the AI is to read the "readme.txt" files accompanied by an AI mod. Most of the authors in the TDM Mod put one in there. If nothing else, for a roadmap for what they tried and are still trying to accomplish. I know for my AI races, I tried to describe each change I made from version 1.00, etc. so that I could go back and fix something if it proved to be not beneficial to the AI. I think another thing to consider is that certain racial picks/planet preferences are going to do better depending on the type of game/galaxy you are playing. Similarly, some races really are not designed to be an aggresive combat race - like my Dra'kol. They are intended to stay true to their form similar to their distant cousins the Darloks, even though the intelligence system in SE4 will not give them any significant edge, they still poor most of their efforts into it. Anyway, do check out those readme's as I still learn a lot by reading what other fellow modders have done.

-TG