Naval Recruitment CAI?

**Agamemnon** · July 04, 2012, 12:18 PM

Hey, I love NTW's naval battles, and I've been wondering what exactly it would take to get more of them. After you defeat the starting navies, there's really no more naval combat (at least when speaking of large ships). It would be awesome if a modder could make/tell me how to make a CAI that will force the AI to recruit the strongest ships it can and contest the domination of the seas.

For ETW it'd be nice too.

**Xorte-Renshe** · July 14, 2012, 09:38 PM

This is something I've been trying to get/do for the longest time. I even tried editting the save file to just simply give the enemy fleets more ships of the line, but, unfortunately, you cant do that using the esf editor.

So, I definitely second this request.

**Agamemnon** · July 14, 2012, 09:56 PM

Why can't you do that with ESF editor? You can remove armies, can't you?

**Steph** · July 15, 2012, 12:13 AM

It's difficult to do. Replacing a unit by another is relatively easy. Moving an army is doable but a little tricky.
Adding a new army, or a new unit, or deleting an army is more difficult.

**Agamemnon** · July 15, 2012, 03:19 PM

Ah. Seems odd, you'd think you could just copy-paste entries to duplicate units.

**Steph** · July 15, 2012, 03:38 PM

Originally Posted by Agamemnon

Ah. Seems odd, you'd think you could just copy-paste entries to duplicate units.

Not so simple since units are referenced at several points. Moreover, a unit needs a unique identifier, and if you just copy and paste it would obviously not be unique.

**Agamemnon** · July 15, 2012, 03:40 PM

Ah, dang it.

**The Hedge Knight** · July 16, 2012, 10:16 AM

Working on it...

Ottoman fleet (galleys = nasty, avoid at all costs

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Danish trade fleet

Spanish Fleet

French first rate convention

**Agamemnon** · July 17, 2012, 10:39 PM

NICE!

One other thing, though: Since the AI clearly isn't capable of properly using trade fleets, maybe make factions recruit merchantmen less? It would mean fewer potential trade fleets out there, but the trade ships are never actually used for trade anyhow.

**lordargento** · July 17, 2012, 11:00 PM

It´s great to have the Hedge working on this. There´s no better man to develop the AI for navies. Thanks

**The Hedge Knight** · July 18, 2012, 08:12 PM

Originally Posted by Agamemnon

NICE!

One other thing, though: Since the AI clearly isn't capable of properly using trade fleets, maybe make factions recruit merchantmen less? It would mean fewer potential trade fleets out there, but the trade ships are never actually used for trade anyhow.

Denmark begs to differ.

**Agamemnon** · July 18, 2012, 08:17 PM

I don't see any trade fleets there.

**Xorte-Renshe** · July 21, 2012, 03:06 AM

Oh, hey, Hedge! Good to see you on this!

In your first post, that Danish fleet is huge. Beautiful! In your second post, Denmark did have a really potent East India Company, after all. I guess it's no surprise they're dominating trade... but I dont know. Russia seems rather close behind them. They might catch up.

**The Hedge Knight** · July 21, 2012, 02:26 PM

Will be releasing soon as part of my uai thread. http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=370617

*edit*
And up, if you like it, do spread the word a bit

, also post in the linked thread not this one so it get bumped and people might then see it...