question for ai modders

Suicide Junkie · #1 November 17th, 2001, 03:56 AM

You've got the 6-SpaceYard Starbase:
12,000 KT of ship building power per turn. Millions of fighters, or baseships every turn.

And the 25 movement point baseship.

But what else?
Aside from engines & spaceyards, I can't think of anything that would be useful.

Giving a neutral race some modded ultra-special racial tech would be good though. Keep 'em valuable throughout the game as a trading partner.

Puke · #2 November 17th, 2001, 01:17 PM

resupply ships with a dozzen resupply pods?

can they also make ships that violate the size restrictions?

capnq · #3 November 17th, 2001, 09:39 PM

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of course, the first player will always get the cookie unless diplomacy sequence is randomized like combat sequence should have been.

Why would diplomacy need to be randomized? I don't understand how player order could affect it.

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Beck · #4 November 19th, 2001, 05:37 PM

Well, if there is only one super shipyard to be traded on any given turn and diplomacy is by player order, player 1 could get it every time just by being in line. You almost need an auction feature where the neutral will trade to the highest bidder.

Jourin · #5 November 19th, 2001, 06:12 PM

The AI builds according to the spaces per 1. I use the external missile mod for components, but felt only 1 could be justified per ship, so I added the only 1 per vehicle restrictiion - worked good for human players, but found AI still building multiples. For external missiles I gave it a weapons type of 52, put it as the secondary weapon and then changed the spaces per 1 to 10000. The AI will only build 1. If I change the spaces per 1 to 100, the AI will build many and violate the one per vehicle restriction. Anything that is controled by spaces per 1, I think the AI can violate the only 1 per vehicle restriction - like maybe the extra movement components. Engines are controlled differently and I do not think the AI can violate the limits.

As a secondary weapon, I put the external mount missiles on most all AI vehicles. It gives most ships at least one chance to do a lot of damage before dying.