AI and Free Upkeep.

[Slaunyeh]

Well in order to diminish the boring stack spam i was thinkiering with multiple solution, unfortunatly i just am beginning to poke m nose in script so i have many doubts in what is possible and whats not.

Is it possible to make the AI fill every slots of free upkeep and then go to war ?
Is it possible to make a separate free upkeep to ai from player ? (Like adding in the building smething like
"IF I_AIfaction....."
This would help to kill the spam stack due to "maintain siege button pressed".....

Since each unit have value, is the AI able to recognize better units and priorize them for build, then for settlement defense for example ?

Is it possible to make the AI priorize stacking instead of having a bunch of tiny easy crushable armies ?

Thank you.

[konny]

Is it possible to make the AI fill every slots of free upkeep and then go to war ?

no

Is it possible to make a separate free upkeep to ai from player ?

yes

(Like adding in the building smething like "IF I_AIfaction....."

no, you either need dublicates of the units in question or trigger recruitment by script.

This would help to kill the spam stack due to "maintain siege button pressed".....

???

Since each unit have value, is the AI able to recognize better units and priorize them for build, then for settlement defense for example ?

no. Use recruit_priority (Kingdoms only) and the "personalities" in descr_strat.

Is it possible to make the AI priorize stacking instead of having a bunch of tiny easy crushable armies ?

yes, via modding the campaign AI see: http://rtw.heavengames.com/cgi-bin/f...t&f=9,6718,,10

[Vaz]

Can you influence the upkeep value via a script? i.e have an upkeep as 100 for Player, and 0 as AI, without doubling the entry (limiting us to 250 units, if you go the whole hog).

On that same note, can you influence the Recruit priorities depending on a nearby faction? I.e if a faction at the start of a game has say 5 different spearmen units, but a single axe unit, but is nearby to a horse heavy faction, but it then expands, and comes into contact with a faction which specializes in heavy infantry, can you change the recruit priority for those particular settlements bordering the faction?

As to the stack spam - this is based on Third Age - sieging a settlement without attacking causes a script to spawn a huge army. Usually, the AI get's defeated by these stacks, which leaves said large stacks to go off wandering all over the map, slowing the game down, and making it boring. That's the main reason why we're asking.

[konny]

Can you influence the upkeep value via a script? i.e have an upkeep as 100 for Player, and 0 as AI, without doubling the entry (limiting us to 250 units, if you go the whole hog).

No. You need doublicate units, or special free_upkeep units whos recruitment is controlled by the script.

On that same note, can you influence the Recruit priorities depending on a nearby faction?

No. recruit_priority is a setting in EDU and cannot be changed via script.

As to the stack spam - this is based on Third Age - sieging a settlement without attacking causes a script to spawn a huge army.

Remove the script, problem solved.

The Three Commandments on Spawning Units by Script
Do not (never!) spawn any units for AI factions; save for re-balance units on turn #1.

Do not spawn any rebel units; unless you have a really good reason.

Do not use any garrisons scripts; raise starting garrisons instead.

[Taiji]

As to the stack spam - this is based on Third Age - sieging a settlement without attacking causes a script to spawn a huge army. Usually, the AI get's defeated by these stacks, which leaves said large stacks to go off wandering all over the map, slowing the game down, and making it boring. That's the main reason why we're asking.

They don't have to spawn for the AI. Change the script so it fires for players only.

[Gigantus]

There is an interesting thread around regarding the balancing of garrison scripts: destroy_units - 3 sample uses
The idea being to use units with special abilities for spawning garisons, and then via destroy_unit script to remove these units once the siege is over.