AI Research Queues

[Daynarr]

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Originally posted by Devnullicus:
(HUH??? What happened to Organic Weapons 1??)

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They can't add Organic Weapons to the queue because they haven't researched the necessary tech - Organic Engineering. They will add them at the end of the queue as soon as they research the necessary prerequisites. That means that they will need to research Organic Engineering, 3 other techs and only then they will research organic weapons.

The system is fairly simple - the AI maintains a queue of 4 techs all the time. In order to do that AI will go through the research.txt file from top to bottom and will place in queue the first tech that:

a) hasn't been researched already
b) all the necessary prerequisite techs have been researched
c) isn't disabled in the game setup

(there may be more but at the moment I just can't remember them)
If the tech has met all the mentioned requirements it will be placed at the end of the queue.

Hope this makes it somewhat clearer. I do understand all this but it's hard to explain it without confusing people even more.

Wouldya look at that - Tampa beat me to it.

[This message has been edited by Daynarr (edited 25 April 2001).]