XAI 4.0 released!

[Glabro]

Congratulations and thanks for this monumental piece of work.

It's a shame though - some people still continue to tinker away at RTW....even though the AI is hopeless. I guess they don't care about the AI and just want pretty classical units?

[AnthoniusII]

That would be awesome!! to include XAI!!

Vassalage; We definitely want to test that area further, your mod sounds perfect to test it's functionality. We were unable to put much time into testing that area in the CAI this go around. Vassals within vanilla never worked correctly, and they were never broken at the proper times. I made an entire section just for vassals! So with your mod, we could really refine it's operation. Through the XCAI though we can make it easier for the AI to get them. We were unable to test how the new rules work with vassals. So let's test it and get it working the way it 100% should be. That will be one of the last things to get properly working within the campaign AI. (not counting garrisons)

More on Ships: In our latest testbed, miikll made a great discovery of how water and ships work. If you look at some of the screenshots in this thread and this one you will see that the aztecs have expanded to Africa! and in my current campaign 100 turns later, they still have 3 cities there. So with these changes, the AI will reinforce its newly conquered areas. Which previously the AI would not do. We theorize that it is a pathfinging issue! between how the AI sees shallow and deep water with differend ship settings in the EDU. I am having Miikll work up a little FAQ about this.

That is what i realy needed to hear my dear friend!
Here you can see TGC map in early stage.
The area may look small but the map is huge.
In the map's small box you can see that sea covers half of the map.
So a muslim fleet from Crete may be able to raid norther coasts of Aegean or Cyprus.
A muslim fleet of Sicily may be able to raid north-north east coasts of Adriatic etc.
We are going to add some naval invasions via events but we need the unexpected in order to show the era's real essence!
I will be in tuch..

[xeryx]

That is what i realy needed to hear my dear friend!
Here you can see TGC map in early stage.
The area may look small but the map is huge.
In the map's small box you can see that sea covers half of the map.
So a muslim fleet from Crete may be able to raid norther coasts of Aegean or Cyprus.
A muslim fleet of Sicily may be able to raid north-north east coasts of Adriatic etc.
We are going to add some naval invasions via events but we need the unexpected in order to show the era's real essence!
I will be in tuch..

Oh AnthoniusII

You are in for a great treat. We have a whole section of code devoted to naval invasion. The thing is we had to tone it down for this release, and for the typical mod. We can modify the Xcai to perform in whatever way you want with minimal scripting a higher degree of strategic planning. Of course the scripts are great for historical accuracy! The current build will only need tweeked in a few areas to give you what you are looking for. You see it is mostly about path-finding on the map (even water) to have an efficiant xcai. Mikll found that by making the sea all one type and all ships heavy the xcai has a much easier time getting across the oceans.

Our most recent breakthough is pathfinding on the battlefield, you really should try it. It is a great improvement in battle, over the last one and vanilla. We still have issues to deal with, but one by one we are knocking them out. Stone Forts are fabulous and work great on the map. But we still need to figure them out in battles, so they act like a castle for troop deployment.

[Wintermist]

It would be amazing if a total conversion was made for MTW to become a new RTW ;D

[xeryx]

Yeah if pigs could fly we would probably do it too!! unfortunately the AI is locked, and I doubt we could do as much

[thursgun]

Thanks. I'm gonna try it and if possible give you guys some feedback.

+rep.

[tium]

Hey, Just on question, would this work in SS?

[Tony83]

Hi Xeryx, congratulations on the release of 4.0, it is good to see that you and your team are continuing your epic work. In the not too distant future, we hope to make the transition ourselves onto the Med II engine and I hope that you will allow us to use XAI as part of our build. It would be really cool if, when the time comes, you could even help us tweak it specifically for the Ancient Era.

In the meantime, I shall be trying out 4.0 in KGCM (it's a shame PDER 2 is not out - I'd have loved to try it in that).

[Dewy]

Hi Xeryx, congratulations on the release of 4.0, it is good to see that you and your team are continuing your epic work. In the not too distant future, we hope to make the transition ourselves onto the Med II engine and I hope that you will allow us to use XAI as part of our build. It would be really cool if, when the time comes, you could even help us tweak it specifically for the Ancient Era.

In the meantime, I shall be trying out 4.0 in KGCM (it's a shame PDER 2 is not out - I'd have loved to try it in that).

I miss the good old RTW days. RTW is so much easier to work on and has better tools.

[Wintermist]

I miss the good old RTW days. RTW is so much easier to work on and has better tools.

And well, the era was great fun too. Though I love the Medieval, Roman was even more fun.

[Tony83]

I miss the good old RTW days. RTW is so much easier to work on and has better tools.

Yeah, I know what you mean, but RTW has its limitations, which is why we shall probably be migrating after we've finished our current RTRVII project.

[xeryx]

Thanks for all the good words guys!! It is good to see the community being active here again.

For you guys that don't have alot of experience with modding. I recommend you try Soul Firez's version of KGCM it is here It is called heroes Hordes and beyond.

Hey Tony!! When you get to that point of using AI let me know!

[Protector]

Cant download without creating an account.

When I click on the 3 files and then on download I get lost in all the advertising of mediafire site.

Anybody out there who can help me to get the download without creating an account. I just want it easy to download like all the other MTW2 mods.

Thx in advance.

[xeryx]

I sure didn't see a bunch of advertisements, when i click on MF? let alone for them asking me to join. Maybe it took you to a different site?

I explained earlier, I chose MF because it is easy to organize on my end and has folders, it is a good site and I am sorry you are having issues. I suppose that it is going to have issues for some people.
Me being able to have one centralized site saves me time, as I have little to spare. If it becomes a MAJOR issue then I will find another. But so far over 150 people have been able to download it fine and only 4 have not.

Maybe I can email them to you.

[tium]

You just have to dowload one at a time.

[Protector]

When ever I click on download it goes to "Upgrade Media pro". I want to have a download not any upgrade.

And when I click on upgrade ... on next site I click on free user and it gives me 3 buttons to select:

1x upload file button button
1x create account button
1x video tour button

very annoying...

[xeryx]

That is very odd, I can sign out and it takes me straight to my page.

http://www.mediafire.com/Xeryx

Try that. or do a search for XAI. Let me know what you find
Click on the folder, don't download it, it will take you to all the files, just like in your windows.

You will get some pop ups, but block them. Just look on your desktop, for the download window! It is there

[Protector]

Thx man,

the trick is not to click on the download button...very odd.

When I click on the folder itself it works ...

Thx again.

[Protector]

I do use and install RTW + MTW2 mods as long as I can think (about 8 years now) but to install all your files now to make your mod work correct seems to me very much complex ...

I just thought to paste your files into the MTW2/mods/ data folder as usual or even into some sub folder but .. hhuuh ... there is much more to do and to think about...

I also did never have to read so much read me.txt before instalation of few files...

[xeryx]

That is because they are core files. The BAI file (XBAI, Formations, and Pathfinding) are all plug and play files. There are just drop into the data directory.

It is the XCAI that require more work and is done in steps.