What causes the AI to just die and stop expanding?

Sombre · #1 June 18th, 2009, 08:34 AM

That still doesn't explain what's in his screenshots. Rlyeh has a huge amount of units in its cap, but it has completely frozen, not losing a province or gaining one in a large number of turns. Obviously if it was trying to take indies it could, given its massive army there.

Maybe if you could show a shot with eyes of god up or something showing the edges of their territory, rather than just their cap? They do have a decent little empire, they just stopped taking new stuff.

iceboy · #2 June 18th, 2009, 01:59 PM

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Originally Posted by Sombre

That still doesn't explain what's in his screenshots. Rlyeh has a huge amount of units in its cap, but it has completely frozen, not losing a province or gaining one in a large number of turns. Obviously if it was trying to take indies it could, given its massive army there.

Maybe if you could show a shot with eyes of god up or something showing the edges of their territory, rather than just their cap? They do have a decent little empire, they just stopped taking new stuff.

Hmm yeah I will use the eyes of god when I get there research wise to take a better look and Ill post!

MaxWilson · #3 June 18th, 2009, 02:20 PM

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Originally Posted by Sombre

Maybe if you could show a shot with eyes of god up or something showing the edges of their territory, rather than just their cap? They do have a decent little empire, they just stopped taking new stuff.

Instead of Eyes of God, turn on --comptrn. Check how much its income is compared to the maintenance costs. It could be that income is effectively zero, which might mean it can't buy any leaders to move those polypal spawn to the front.

-Max

Arralen · #4 June 18th, 2009, 03:07 PM

Even if the AI cannot buy any more leaders (are those spawns not upkeep-free??), it still has it's pretender in the province (Wyrm), which should be able to lead at least hundred of them or more into battle ... unless they require magic command, and it maybe does not have magic leadership at all??

Maybe Kristoffer or better Johan should have a look at the turn file ...

iceboy · #5 June 18th, 2009, 03:08 PM

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Originally Posted by MaxWilson

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Originally Posted by Sombre

Maybe if you could show a shot with eyes of god up or something showing the edges of their territory, rather than just their cap? They do have a decent little empire, they just stopped taking new stuff.

Instead of Eyes of God, turn on --comptrn. Check how much its income is compared to the maintenance costs. It could be that income is effectively zero, which might mean it can't buy any leaders to move those polypal spawn to the front.

-Max

Thanks how do I turn that on just type comptrn? Yep good point not only has the AI probably starved itself to death with autospawn but probably bankrupted itself as well!