RELEASED: Soulsons Campaign AI Improvements 1.7

[soulson]

Glad your enjoying boleslaw

[Furor_Mancunia]

30 turns in as Hungary, VH/H, early. Allied with Poland and Venice. Just about beat a Venetian army to Zagreb, which they helped me conquer and then promptly went home!

Byzantines attacked on turn nine, but since the Seljuks and Venetians declared war on them they have begun to send diplomats to me asking for me to become a vassal (Pah!). Frequency of their attacks is also decreasing.

Looks good so far, no backstabs as yet.

[Fair Prince]

soulson - I'm not sure if this problem has already been addressed before, but could you please make it much more difficult to purchase settlements?

[Fair Prince]

soulson - I'm not sure if this problem has already been addressed before, but could you please make it much more difficult to purchase settlements?

Btw, did you manage to fix this issue I brought up before?

[KingCnut]

Btw, did you manage to fix this issue I brought up before?

I'm having the same issue, I can get a settlement quite easily just offering a ceasfire.

[Kilgore Trout]

I prefer if the rebels stay in their city. Could you tell me what I need to change in order to make that the case.

In that regard, I wonder if the game would be more interesting if all of the rebel cities had full garrisons instead of usually only moderate or small?

About backstabbing - yes, it might be nice to see a drastic drop in reputation if the human player backstabbed or independently broke an alliance.

I assume I should dump the two files in the general data folder and check the Lusted AI in set-up in order to try your new AI, is this correct?

I've always thought it ridiculous when factions at opposite ends of the map are constantly at war - so I much look forward to trying your new AI!

BTW, what exactly does your new auto-resolve change?

Also, as you are on the CHIP team, I want to say that like many others I am much looking forward to the team's upcoming release - though I would hope for an eventual option for BYGIV and 1 turn per year.

Keep up the good work. Thanks!

[soulson]

That would require me modifying the diplomacy file which I have not yet. May due that in the future as well as lowering the importance of map information.


Going to take another look at backstabs. Need to modify them and want to release them in the next verion so it may take until tomorrow night or the weekend at the latest.

[Fair Prince]

That would require me modifying the diplomacy file which I have not yet. May due that in the future as well as lowering the importance of map information.

Ok, that's good enough. Just make sure you close (or at least narrow) this loophole once and for all.

[Lanier]

I agree with what Byg said on the previous page about backstabbing. It should be pretty rare unless you decide to backstab, in which relations around the board would drop, and therefore, war declarations would be more common. Is this kind of what you are aiming for?

[soulson]

Updated file. Fixed alliances between orthodox and cath and tweaked mongols as well as invasions.

[Gorrrrrn]

@Soulson.

Incorporating your autoresolve into the CHIP files.
One big change:
naval_sink_modifier float = 65.0 -
previous value was 1.5 - any reason for such a big change?

(not saying it's wrong - I don't know how that value works - just looks a big change.)

[soulson]

Yea I need to take another look at backstabs. Still seeing an "invade_none" for my conditions instead of what im looking for. Will try and fix it for the weekend no time atm.


Roz. I'm not familiar with the autoresolve. Will have to play with it those settings and go from there.

[Gorrrrrn]

to keep rebels in cities change the following value in descr_campaign_db.xml:
(in the settlement section)
<min_turn_keep_rebel_garrison int="30"/> to any number up to max of 999 (should be long enough!)

[Kilgore Trout]

Well, I guess that should have been obvious.

Thanks Rozanov - sorry to take you away from CHIP - really looking forward to that!

[karaislam]

soulson is this compatible with vanilla kingdoms game?

[soulson]

It should work but it's not meant for it.

[soulson]

Updated version by tonight. Contains small fixes. Restart campaign as usual.

[Kilgore Trout]

I wanted to try your new AI because I really dislike it when factions across the map from each other are constantly at war.

I go about 30 turns in as HRE on early campaign VH/VH but decided to quit.

One reason I quit is that I had already allied myself with virtually every faction on the map. All of my offers for alliance were accepted as generous, and even very generous by Islamic factions that were at war with Christians.

But even more problematic was that at least 5 times, indeed every time I opened diplomatic relations with a faction that was at war with a faction that I was already allied with, I was given the alliance option - as generous or very generous - offered it, and said faction made peace with it's enemy in order to ally with me. This seems to be quite off.

Is this what you intended?

BTW, as of yet, no one has declared war on me, even though I have only 3 cities. Well, alas, as every nation will sign a truce just to ally with me, I do have alliances with everyone and hence am considered to be Trustworthy.

[soulson]

I wanted to try your new AI because I really dislike it when factions across the map from each other are constantly at war.

I go about 30 turns in as HRE on early campaign VH/VH but decided to quit.

One reason I quit is that I had already allied myself with virtually every faction on the map. All of my offers for alliance were accepted as generous, and even very generous by Islamic factions that were at war with Christians.

But even more problematic was that at least 5 times, indeed every time I opened diplomatic relations with a faction that was at war with a faction that I was already allied with, I was given the alliance option - as generous or very generous - offered it, and said faction made peace with it's enemy in order to ally with me. This seems to be quite off.

Is this what you intended?


BTW, as of yet, no one has declared war on me, even though I have only 3 cities. Well, alas, as every nation will sign a truce just to ally with me, I do have alliances with everyone and hence am considered to be Trustworthy.

Ive never had that problem on VH. Will take a look into it. If you ally with your enemys ally then they will be at peace, hardcoded nothing I can do about that. BTW, are you offering map info or trade rights or both as well?? If more people chime in and have the same problem im sure I can fix it.

[Boleslaw I.]

Ive never had that problem on VH. Will take a look into it. If you ally with your enemys ally then they will be at peace, hardcoded nothing I can do about that. BTW, are you offering map info or trade rights or both as well?? If more people chime in and have the same problem im sure I can fix it.

hey soulson , I have same problem! right now I'm in my Norway campaign (120 +) turn and it's like...impossible to go in war with someone because every faction has like 10 allies , in first 20 - 25 turns of game , there were no wars ( only CS vs Fatimids ) but every turn alliances. I'm only allied with Kiev. Right now I'm in war with Novgorod and it's impossible to get some new alliances or do anything because almost every other faction is allied to Novgorod. I like this AI very much but this is one thing that's kinda going on my nervous.