Mod: SemiRandom AI

[Gandalf Parker]

Grabbing a random number and making it a unit, commander, or pretender has its pros and cons. I cant see any of the stats.

So I noticed early on that some of the most powerful units showed up as 0 cost and 1 resource. That would not be so good to have an AI get ahold of for some major demons and summons to be ble to recruit the max number each turn. So I randomly assign a cost. I wanted it to be in line with the cost of a big surprise unit, and not low enough for the AI to fill the army with them no matter what they were. And unfortunately I cannot check to see if there already is a gold cost before changing it. So all of the added ones get a new gold cost of 40+(10 * random of 0 to 15) and commanders get a gold cost of 50+(10*random of 0 to 20)

The pretenders gold setting defines their points cost. So they get a random gold setting also. Ive been playing with those amounts.
They also get a path cost of 10*random of 0 to 7
and a dominion of 1+random of 0 to 3

I am truly math-clueless so my testing tends to be to just plug a number in and play it for abit to see if I like it. Feel free to offer up better formulas.

This program might end up splitting a number of ways.
As an addition to the SemiRand program.
Only for creating random nations for players.
Only for creating random nations for AIs.
And server-side to create a change to a MOD file.

The last one I have been testing with mixed results. I can create a series of games on my server every day such as SR_AI_xxxxxx and tell people they must have the stub.dm in their mod directory in order to play. The version they download would be about 4 lines. Just a blank placeholder so the game knows to use it. The mod can be modified at the server end to include most of what I have done. That way they can play any of the games without having to download a new mod. But only certain things work that way. I can add, delete, move around units betwen nations. But I cannot modify them. Same with the sites. So the gold-cost thing would be a problem. I might have to create an extended version which grabs the choices from files listing only the acceptable units.