Help with shipping.

[Toxin12]

Hello all, I think this falls into the correct topic section (changing ai). I was wondering if it is possible too change the way that the ai thinks about the navy, that is too say I would like to know if we mite make it so that the ai sends perhaps single ship fleets out for commerce raiding rather than the full stack fleets it tends to create ? Any help will be much appreciated.

[Bethencourt]

The AI preference when recuiting can be modded by ship class but I have not seen any way to make it recruit single ship fleets. I guess if you can it will recruit single ship fleets of any class so it wouldn't be what you want. There is a stat called NAVAL_UNIT_LIMIT in the table campaign_ai_personality_junctions, as you see it is not related only to merchant ships. There is also this one RECRUITMENT_NAVY_CATEGORY_BASE_PROPORTIONS_MERCHANT, this one is related to the others RECRUITMENT_NAVY_CATEGORY_BASE_PROPORTIONS...... stats, NAVY_RECRUITMENT_MINIMUM_RELATIVE_STRENGTH, NAVY_RECRUITMENT_MINIMUM_STRENGTH, you can test changes in these stats but I doubt they lead you to where you want.

[Toxin12]

Hi and thank you for your reply, I'm sorry too hear that but all is well. Thank you again.

[Bad213Boy]

Sorry to highjack, but this is the only thread to mention NAVAL_UNIT_LIMIT. What exactly does it do? The default number is 8.

My guess would be that it's the maximum number of naval units allowed. But there's no indication as to whether it means the max amount of Naval Units per stack or in your entire army.