A New Hope for AI aggressiveness?

[OmniDude]

For those who have an appetite for modding and can't wait for QS to patch the aggressiveness of the opponent AI, there's an interesting thread over at IG, here

Here's hoping....

[Stuie]

I can't get to the ig forums because of the stupid firewall at work.

So what's it about?

[yin26]

I only read the first page (thanks, OmniDude for the link). It's what you might expect: much --all?-- of the AI is in easily editable files. Of course, unless you explicited understand how all the numbers work, you're playing a guessing game...which people now are.

One interesting bit seems to be that the AI is currently set to respond to you in proportion to your forces, so that if you have no forces, there will never be a real attack. This, too, seems to be just a guess, but it would make sense.

So there is hope that these folks will do the AI tweaking we want well before an actual patch comes down the line.

[uglyduck]

Go to the last page - there is a downloadable Mod there for the Military AI.

[uglyduck]

Direct link to the self extracting Mod:-

http://www.colinthegrey.co.uk/MilitaryAI.exe

He is still tweaking it but apparaently it aint a bad job!

[Stuie]

Thanks Yin for the synopsis! Where've you been hiding, anyway?

Be cool if they can pull it off. And thanks uglyduck for the link... maybe I'll give it a try...

[yin26]

Stuie:

Good to see ya! I've taken some time to move back to the U.S. from nearly 6 years in Korea, etc. I've also 'let go' of Civ and my pre-occupation with trying to affect game development from the fan side. Now I just take things as they come...so that means I do a lot more lurking, which I'm sure most of Poly is very thankful for!

Anyway, I think MOO3 can be saved, but withtout strong early sales, the added patch dev. time is in serious jeopardy, I think.