Curious about Dominions? how the AI thinks? which AI is best/worst?

[Gandalf Parker]

If you are curious about the AI builds (pretender, scales, etc) then you can create an icon which will only create a game and allow you to view those.

Short Answer: add --allai and --comptrn to a dom3 command

Long Answer:
If you are using Windows, then right-click your Dom3 icon and choose "copy".
Then right-click a blank spot on your desktop and choose "paste".
Now you have a copy of your Dom3 you can change.
Right-Click on the new copy, select "Properties".
In the "Target" window is the command line calling Dominions 3. There are tons of fun switches you can add there. For this make it..
"C:\Program Files\dominions3\dom3.exe" --allai --comptrn

That will allow you to create a game with all of the nations in as AIs, pick up their first turn, look at the gods and scales. You wont be able to play but let me know what you want and I will see if I can work it out for you. You can usually find me in the chat room. (the chat button at the top of this forum)

Personally I love to add switches. I also like to add
-fwacd (windowed, no fades, no credit screen, keep a game log, no animated backgrounds)

--clickvol 10 to turn down the keyclick thing

--scoredump which creates a seperate scoreboard page each turn like you see on some of the multiplayer servers with numbers for how many provinces, castles, etc each player has

--magicsites 65 --renaming --indepstr 7 --hofsize 15 --eventrarity 1 still gives me a chance to change them when I start a game but it sets them as the defaults that the switches are on so I dont have to change them every time. So adding --renaming to my icon changes renaming from defaulting to off and me having to turn it on for every game, to defaulting to on with an option for me to turn it off if I want.

--seapart 20 --mountpart 50 --mapgcol 50 100 50 250 some of my preferences when it creates a map. I like less water, more mountains which creates many chokepoints, and I change the color of the plains from brown to green

MY icon for looking at the pretenders includes all of those. Also it has
--randmap 20 to create a large random map
--era 1 because thats what Im checking out right now
viewgame (no -- on this one) which creates the game name and overwrites the game viewgame each time I click the icon.

here is a list of all the switches...
http://www.dom3minions.com/docs/CommandLine.txt