Dominions 2. AI. Suggestions, that how to fix it.

[Mortifer]

Originally posted by Gandalf Parker:
hey Kristoffer,
I know I can start a player as human then change it to be AI. Is there any way to change from AI to human? That would allow us to see what the AI is doing and verify if the list is generally vaoid or not.

Someone already had this suggestion, as a 'special debug mode'.
This would help a LOT indeed.

[MStavros]

Originally posted by Mortifer:

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Originally posted by Gandalf Parker:
hey Kristoffer,
I know I can start a player as human then change it to be AI. Is there any way to change from AI to human? That would allow us to see what the AI is doing and verify if the list is generally vaoid or not.

Someone already had this suggestion, as a 'special debug mode'.
This would help a LOT indeed.

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Yup. I agree with this..and yup, someone had mentioned this already.

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Mmmmmmmm I've seen many AI priests...so this can't be a problem. The other mentioned things on your 'list' are very valid however.

[Taqwus]

Tactical AI note:
It would be rather helpful if mages would refrain from casting damaging-aura spells (notably Breath of Winter and Soul Vortex) if next to non-immune friendlies. A Jade Emperor of mine chose to kill his Celestial Master prophet that way; what's worse was that it had absolutely no point, because the enemy had no mages, fliers or summoning-items and never even got close to getting past my front line, let alone near the pretender.

(Variation: As R'lyeh, once one of my Sea Kings (whom I'd deliberately put waaay back to avoid this problem) cast Breath of Winter and then ran to be next to my non-cold-immune Starspawn. This again had no particular purpose.)

[ November 24, 2003, 20:57: Message edited by: Taqwus ]

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Originally posted by Taqwus:
Tactical AI note:
It would be rather helpful if mages would refrain from casting damaging-aura spells (notably Breath of Winter and Soul Vortex) if next to non-immune friendlies. A Jade Emperor of mine chose to kill his Celestial Master prophet that way; what's worse was that it had absolutely no point, because the enemy had no mages, fliers or summoning-items and never even got close to getting past my front line, let alone near the pretender.

(Variation: As R'lyeh, once one of my Sea Kings (whom I'd deliberately put waaay back to avoid this problem) cast Breath of Winter and then ran to be next to my non-cold-immune Starspawn. This again had no particular purpose.)

Hehe, I've seen mistakes like that!
I think there are lot more problems with the AI mages, since the AI is not builsing too many mages/wizards/etc.
Just a lill comprasion: The AI builds lot more priests, than mages!

[Nerfix]

Originally posted by Taqwus:
Tactical AI note:
It would be rather helpful if mages would refrain from casting damaging-aura spells (notably Breath of Winter and Soul Vortex) if next to non-immune friendlies. A Jade Emperor of mine chose to kill his Celestial Master prophet that way; what's worse was that it had absolutely no point, because the enemy had no mages, fliers or summoning-items and never even got close to getting past my front line, let alone near the pretender.

(Variation: As R'lyeh, once one of my Sea Kings (whom I'd deliberately put waaay back to avoid this problem) cast Breath of Winter and then ran to be next to my non-cold-immune Starspawn. This again had no particular purpose.)

A Jade Emperor with Death magic? Where do you ppl get those design points?

Yes, i hate when this happens. This is why i spread my mages. The mages also seem o be way too happy of casting Fire/Astral/Air Shield and other self-buff spells.

[Taqwus]

To clarify, the Jade Emperor didn't have death magic, if memory serves; he used only Breath of Winter. Soul Vortex I mentioned because of its similar "hurt those nearby" effect.
'course, the same could hold for certain battle summons, hm -- notably fire elementals for their heat-radiating effect. That's somewhat more controllable, 'tho, as even the lesser elementals require gems now.