"max . event severity" - does it work ??

[JLS]

Originally posted by oleg:

I never lost my system, but I saw it happens severa times to AI players. It is very togh to nail. But I'm absolutely sure I'm right.
Try this - use default AIC' events file, edit settings.txt to increase events chance by say 100 times and start a game with "medium" events. Very soon - I guarantee it !! You will see high or catastrophic event. Trust me

You are saying Oleg, you have never lost a Home SYSTEM or Planet yourself as the Human Player;
your concern is that the AI lost its System or Planet…

OK, just a few questions.

The ((( AI ))) Race that lost its system/planet it was at war with a AIC Engineering or Science race?

[ August 30, 2003, 20:42: Message edited by: JLS ]

[oleg]

John, please ! Purge your events.txt file of ALL events except two. One is "low" (just an example) another "catastrophic". Arrange the file that "cat." goes first. Edit settings.txt so events freuency is really high - just to save time. Start a new game with max.events severity "low". Report your results. I GUARANTEE you will see catastrophic event. Moreover, it will have the relative frequency equal to "low" event.

[JLS]

Oleg, clearly if I change the default Settings Data File from:

Event Percent Chance Low := 10%
Event Percent Chance Medium := 20%
Event Percent Chance High := 40%

All too 100%, this will clearly increase and bastardize the Event results ten fold for all the tiered categories and will not prove the result you are attempting to present.

Proof is in the game, as WE both just stated loosing a Home World or Planet to a random event in AIC HAS NOT happened to you or I, ever.

Do you think the AI Players interprets or is some how effected differently then a Human Player would be.
All players, Human or AI Subscribe to the same Events File, Oleg

In regards to the AI you also stated you are not able to put a finger on it and without your SAVE GAME it is now up for speculation.
It just as well could have been a Planet or System destruction devise researched and assembled by an AIC Science or Engineering race.

Sure you may release the file for AIC, if it has the core programming that I invested in it, however with just reorganizing the order I see no problem, but then again we did not see or have had any reports there was a problem to begin with.

[ August 30, 2003, 21:20: Message edited by: JLS ]

[Phoenix-D]

"Event Percent Chance Low := 10%
Event Percent Chance Medium := 20%
Event Percent Chance High := 40%

All too 100%, this will clearly increase and bastardize the Event results ten fold for all the tiered categories and will not prove the result you are attempting to present."

It will prove his point. If you turn Catastrophic events off, they should NEVER occur, even with event frequency set to 100%. These settings, by the way, refer to the chance settings in the game setup, not to the severity of the event itself.

[JLS]

Originally posted by Phoenix-D:
"Event Percent Chance Low := 10%
Event Percent Chance Medium := 20%
Event Percent Chance High := 40%

All too 100%, this will clearly increase and bastardize the Event results ten fold for all the tiered categories and will not prove the result you are attempting to present."

It will prove his point. If you turn Catastrophic events off, they should NEVER occur, even with event frequency set to 100%. These settings, by the way, refer to the chance settings in the game setup, not to the severity of the event itself.

aggreed

[JLS]

I added to edit:

Proof is in the game, as WE both just stated loosing a Home World or Planet to a random event in AIC HAS NOT happened to you or I, ever.

Do you think the AI Players interprets or is some how effected differently then a Human Player would be.
All players, Human or AI Subscribe to the same Events File, Oleg

Also Oleg, do you feel Aaron was in error with the default se4 Events File by not having it in the order by having a high follow a catastrophic event as I did?

[ August 30, 2003, 21:36: Message edited by: JLS ]

[JLS]

Originally posted by Xaren Hypr:
I had the same incident (catastrophic event in a max. high game) a little while ago, but mine dealt with the "planet destroyed w/o warning" event. I am using the expanded Dracus' expanded Events.txt file. I had just figured the it was a momentary glitch and not a bug...

I am going to reorder the events in the file (low -> catastrophic) and I'll post if it happens again, but hopefully not...that was my homeworld...

(edit: I really need to finish reading a thread before replying )

XH

I would be very interested in your results, please let us know

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Oleg, I look forward to testing your file this month and thank you for reorganizing the AIC events file
As long as the KEY event percentages do not change then sure, it is a go.

As always I enjoy our discussions

John

[ August 30, 2003, 22:15: Message edited by: JLS ]