More AI spamming in 5.4??

[MagyarMatt]

Downloaded 5.4 and am really enjoying it. The turns go a lot quicker as well. My one gripe is that the AI seems a lot more Spammy with it's armies!! For example in my current Hungarian camapign I am at war with Venice. I managed to take Zagreb from them and now I can see a fair few Venetian armies in the area. Further South I sneaked up on a poorly garrisoned Ragusa and before I know it half of Venice appears out of nowhere. I just fought one battle killing the Doge and another family memeber and the very next turn another near full stack appears from nowhere. Given the Venetians are not the largest of empires I find their ability to replenish and field so many troops rather odd. I never had this problem in 5.3 when I took on the much larger Byzantine empire. Venice is also at war with the HRE so I was just wondering if scripts have been changed and if so how to reduce the AI spam?

[MagyarMatt]

See what I mean. Look at all those spammed big stacks!!! This after I lay siege to Venice!! This is the only thing ruining what is otherwise an awesome mod.

[Aeon`]

Even if Venetians are not a superpower as HRE or France, they have a quite strong starting position.

Venice gives a lot of money and they will spend it always because of the tense situation in Italy with HRE (Bologna) and their neighbour Milan.



A tough enemy.
Maybe you can get alliances to beat them.

[MagyarMatt]

Well I took Venice and I also snatched victory from the jaws of defeat at Ragusa when some of my Magyar Cavalry sneaked in through the gate and took the castle with the timer running out before Venice could recapture it. But despite this newly aquired territory they are still coming at me from left right and centre!! I am allied with the mighty HRE who I also got to attack the Venetians yet I'm lucky if I see one half stack of those guys (thanks for the help!!)

I don't want things to be a walkover but it's just verging on the ridiculous now!!

[ivanhoex]

in a turkish game i played, 5.0, stacks ai deployed where more or less same as your pick. and with more or less i mean A LOT MORE or less.


besides, in that same campaign, HRE allied with venice. they Together crushed every other country in the region but the biz. i took the biz out then i destroyed their combined forces. but they were awesomely strong, helping one another all the time, the world had full stacks all over the place.

and france was in war with milano at the same time, france dispatched to milans borders like 20 full stacks at the same time, answered by a pretty much iqual strenght on milans side...


play DLV and enjoy XD



edit: cheating is baaaaaaddddddddd

[repman]

No i have reduced the money scripts in 5.4, even gave the higher core buildings negative boni..but there are a lot of new economic buildings so the AI and the player have a lot of many later in the game

repman

[Omar Nelson B.]

All I can say at Magyarmatt is watch your back. I was in a Hungary game and had finished off Venice for the most part leaving them just their capital. I was on good terms with most people and at war with just Russia(I like to try and keep it to a one front war if I can) when the "age of darkness" hit and HRE , Biz and Venice all went back to war with me. Long story short, I lost all my regions accept one. I got destroyed quickly due to the fact that I was caught off gaurd and couldn't keep three good armies supplies quick enough.
Cheers and have fun

[repman]

I can reduce the effect of the first Dark ages,.....but now you know how to prepare...lol

repman

[Omar Nelson B.]

I can reduce the effect of the first Dark ages,.....but now you know how to prepare...lol

repman

Aye all it needs is a touch up and maybe a shortening. Your right I will never get caught off guard again! I lost that campaign but there were some awesome battles and it was a blast to play out.

Have you ever looked into making buildings like doctors/hospitals and/or some type of sanitary/medical building that could possibly reduce the effects/length of the plagues?