Best Campaign AI?

[Quark]

Lusted
I suppose thats why we do all this testing as the Ai seems to have the 'I know you think what you said was...' approach to inputs.

I could not find the papal states not ally with Islamic faction decision?

[Lusted]

Yeah can you try and verify if the Papal states are not allying with Islamic factions.

[Petykemano]

That is it, Lusted. I used your latest CAI, and France is struggling from its rebelling cities.
Also after watching Hungary and Venice fighting against the Byzantine without any success despite my financial support, I cancelled the alliance with Hungary, Poland, Kiev, the Danes, and the Moors. A few turns later, Hungary besieged Vienna with a puny army. I expect it will ally with the Byzantines and go against Venice or me.

I had a look at the CAI file, and I though I'm not an AI expert, I guess the problem is with priorities. As I said before I see no point in AI's army movements. They seem to be just wandering around the empire. Is it possible that they take too much attention to rebel armies? Or respecting too much the allies, or the ally's allies?

[Warriorset]

I increased base movement points (more movement points for everything) and it seems to help IA to be more challenging and makes campaing more interesting...

[Petykemano]

I think so, and it also tones down the annoying supply problems.

[DrJambo]

Lusted
I know its only one test, but something has gone wrong, its 1125 and
Neither Scotland or England have attacked York
Neither Sicily or Milan have attacked Corsica/Sardinia
Russia has not attacked Helsinki
Kiev-Rus has not attacked the Crimea

Some other stuff I think are SS map issues, eg a Danish merchant going to and from the same resource, turn after turn, but the above are standard opening moves and should have happened by now.

I will re-run the test again to elimate pathfinding issues, but another thing is that there only three faction alliances, thats gone down as well. It may pick up later in the campaign, but will re-test first.

One thing you can do to greatly enhance the AI at the start of the campaign, is modify the descr_strat to give every initial standing army a proper bodyguard unit. In vanilla, many of the initial stacks just start out with captains leading them! Humans get around this by mixing up the stacks and using the bodyguards on the offensive early. However, for the AI, this lack of generals makes taking rebel settlements much more difficult, plus they have the added probability of going rebel, which they often do!

[Dagoth Nerevar]

How do I download Lusted's AI? And is it save game compatible?

[Quark]

Dagoth Nerevar
The first post has the Ai's tested, the last page has Lusted's latest update, but I would use the one on the first post as, in my opinion, something hads gone a bit wrong with the latest update.

[Lusted]

The first post has the Ai's tested, the last page has Lusted's latest update, but I would use the one on the first post as, in my opinion, something hads gone a bit wrong with the latest update.

I can't work out what's gone wrong with it. All that should have been done is make the ai defend better and some other things. Maybe file doesn't like my new entries, i might try and merge some of them into existing ones, but for new i'll revert to the previous version of the file.

[DrJambo]

Lusted,

you could try defend_frontline instead of defend_fortified? It seems to be a popular choice for warring factions in the Britannia campaign.

[Subudu]

If you change the campaign files do you have to start a new campaign or can you just continue with your old one?

[Nightbringer]

you can continue with the old one but i suggest starting a new one for the best experience.

[Pope Gregorius I]

Can someone please tell me how to actually open Lusted's files. the rar file just opens a new tab. I've never understood rar file, much preferring zip files. Though great battle ai there Lusted it wasn't too difficult but the enemy definitely showed strategy.

Btw the limk on the first post leads to a blank page! no files. God must hate me and doesn't want me to get a good ai. What'a the best after lusted's?

[DenniZ]

Whats so difficult on rar files?? Its exactly the same as zips! Are you using winrar?

[Quark]

Pope Gregorius I
They changed server on Sunday and I think there is still some issues with downloading from and saving to the site. Give it a while for Sim to fix.

[Grand Duke Vytautas]

Pope Gregorius I
They changed server on Sunday and I think there is still some issues with downloading from and saving to the site. Give it a while for Sim to fix.

wth, you can open those db files with notepad...

[Lusted]

And do not use the last ai file i posted in the thread, i don't know what went wrong but it did, so use the file i posted before that.

[Bearhugger]

please give a link, lusted. i dont know which file youre talking about.

Also, which CAI is the best by now?

[delra]

For me Lusted's... :-)

[Pope Gregorius I]

Lusted,

I have a problem I hope you can help me with. I started a campaign with your CAI(from the original post, not the bugged one) and it was really awesome. i then installed Kingdoms and then made sure that SS still worked with it installed. It did and so did my campaign. So no problem.

Here's the wierd part. i then installed phoenix's skin pack v4. and attempted to both load my old campaign and start a new one. both times i got a CTD.

The really wierd part is that UAI will work fine. Strange isn't.

I really would like to use your AI, because i know how awesome it is, if you know whats going on please help me. if you don't, please make every effort to find out and fix the problem. Thank you for your work. You know the people at CA get paid to make an ok game but those of you who mod only get scant recognition for an awesome game. So here's my gratitude.