Disable battle AI possible?

[DarkKnight199]

Hello,

is there a way to disable/halt the enemy AI during battles or make them at least extremely passive?
I'm trying to modify some units and weapons and for testing the results of my changes it would be very helpful if the AI troops were just idling around, not moving, attacking, retreating etc.

I've tried playing around with the config_ai_battle.xml and battle_config.xml files, but so far the changes I've done haven't had much effect at all. Am I even looking in the right files? Any help much appreciated. Thanks.

[DarkKnight199]

Ok, I found a workaround for this. I'm using M2 Kingdoms, so that makes it possible to use the move_speed_mod line in the export_descr_unit.txt.

I added "move_speed_mod 0.001" to the unit of my choice (in this case peasants), so they're now completely immobile and can be used as static targets. "0.0" works as well, but the units become invisible when zooming in. With "0.001" this doesn't happen.

[Withwnar]

I've seen it done but didn't know how. Thanks for sharing your solution.

[Gigantus]

Slowing down individual units will be the only solution - doing it via actual AI programming is close to impossible from what I know about it. Not sure if 'freezing' a faction's AI extends to battles, it certainly will not extend to custom battles as the freeze is via script.

[DarkKnight199]

Just for the record: The move_speed_mod line presumably needs to be placed right under the attributes line. Placing it elsewhere (e.g. at the very end, below recruit_priority_offset) crashed the game for me.

[...]
banner holy      crusade
soldier          EE_Peasants, 60, 0, 0.8
attributes       sea_faring, hide_forest, can_withdraw, is_peasant, peasant
move_speed_mod   X.XXX
formation        1.2, 1.2, 2.4, 2.4, 4, square
stat_health      1, 0
stat_pri         3, 0, no, 0, 0, melee, melee_simple, piercing, spear, 25, 0.6
 [...]

[...]Not sure if 'freezing' a faction's AI extends to battles, it certainly will not extend to custom battles as the freeze is via script.

Yeah, I tried it in campaign mode with the disable_ai console command, however that did not affect battles in any way.

[Gigantus]

Placement of 'move' line is indeed fixed. It may not be present but it may not be in a different place.

[z3n]

Slowing down individual units will be the only solution - doing it via actual AI programming is close to impossible from what I know about it. Not sure if 'freezing' a faction's AI extends to battles, it certainly will not extend to custom battles as the freeze is via script.

Yep, it's not really possible to disable the AI as the basic functions are programmed directly into the exe, not just inside of the various configuration files.