The Great AI Doc Hunt of '06

[Rollo]

Imperator Fyron said:Damn, looks like I forget the "semi-annual" part of the title!

Wouldn't that be bi-annual?

Okay, here is a little more detail on the personality numbers:

As said yesterday in IRC, these numbers have no in-game effect and are used only at game start to get the distribution of random empires.

They are linked to this these lines in the /data/settings.txt file:
Code:

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Random Player Personality Groups                                      := 4

Random Player Personality Group 1 Percent                             := 30

Random Player Personality Group 2 Percent                             := 30

Random Player Personality Group 3 Percent                             := 30

Random Player Personality Group 4 Percent                             := 10

---

So, how can a modder use this?
Well, stock SE4 uses this to get a decent mix of AI races who are friendly and not-so-friendly (that's probably where the confusion comes from regarding the race demeanor). All races with similar behavior use the same personality number.

DevnullMod Gold uses this to make a random selection of the Monster race highly unlikely. They have a personality number of -1.

And from top of my head, here is another idea how personality numbers could be used:
Put all the races that have the same howeworld type and/or atmosphere in one group. That way you could improve the selection of races with differrent colonies and breathers. And don't end up with another game of 'yawn, everyone is Rock/Oxygen'.