Well, since it turned out that AI can't access it's XML tags in this update , I don't think additional information with 1.19 will be useful. Next version, though, is a different thing.
AlLanMandragoran: Great stuff in your analysis! Thank you very much and nice work with the saves. seanw3: Added your comment as "AI at a disadvantage at higher tech levels, doesn't seem to utilize them well". It would help if you could be more specific and perhaps provide a savegame. RFHolloway: I think we need a separate demandobot thread for the balance/improvements/general stuff. Should include UI as well. Otherwise the single post will get so bloated the editor will explod
[e digicons]k1[/e] I think the "not grabbing goodie huts" may be due to the new AI behavior that makes them be more careful with sov and spouse. But if they don't leave home, they won't hire any other champions to grab goodie huts either.
Sweet! Thank you mmilleder, your advice is appreciated.
Wow, that's a big game you've got there. Trojasmic, would you happen to know what the small red and blue rectangles next to the items on the left mean? I've never figured them out... in Sins I think they were ships, Capital and small ones. But here?
[e digicons]\o/[/e] Recommended reading: https://forums.elementalgame.com/404770 Also regarding AI building from Demandobot thread: nitey47, HeavenFall: AI creates too many monuments. 8 or 9 in a city, each taking 10 pop. Looks like the AI may be getting a bottleneck with certain resources because it's spending them in unnecessary stuff.
This would really be nice to have. One of those small things that mean a lot in the overall "polished" feel of the game. Can this be hard to implement? I would think not, just change a couple of signs from plus to minus and the other way according to which flags are set. But of course the devil is in the details..
Thank you Seanw3, nitey47 and AlLanMandragoran for your demands! A big thumb up for the provided savegames. Anything we can do to reduce the amount of work required to fix an issue makes the fixing more likely to happen. We can do this best by providing screenshots, savegames and fix suggestions. When I get some time, I think I'll add some more organization to the Community Confirmed stuff. Refining them further into specific requests and bring some priorization in too. Right now majo
For anyone else having this problem, I was able to get past the error by simply pressing 'esc' on my keyboard. It bypasses the screen and you get to play the game.
I had the same problem with being "unable to load data file". Disabling firewall didn't help. However, you can get past it. Don't click ok, press 'esc'. Seriously. It bypasses the screen and you get to play the game.
Added a lot of good observations from Sythion. Most critical areas where improvement is currently being demanded are: Strategic AI: Champions. AI should value them higher in the beginning of the game and be able to equip them. Tactical AI: Maneuvering. AI should not simply rush at a single predetermined target. They should seek first-strike advantage and shift targets according to the situation. Probably on a unit by unit basis, not every unit against the same enemy.</
Well demanded! That'll show 'em! Adding to the list along with some others I found... Can you provide a savegame where you have the champion trading bug evident? If you don't want to put it anywhere yourself, you can PM me for my email and I can put it on dropbox for you. [e digicons]:cylon:[/e]
Thank you Frogboy, that was very kind of you! Kind, but doomed nonetheless [e digicons]:cylon:[/e] Updated stuff on the first post. We really need more save games to provide the devs materi.... to mock the AI further!
Great stuff TheProgress! I hope you don't mind if I add these to the Demandobot AI thread. Kudos for including savegames!
I got the 14.5mb download and now the game won't start. Same problem as Vandenburg.
Got it, it's the same thing Vandenburg talked about. Moving over to Community confirmed. Now if anyone has any save games about lone pioneers going where they shouldn't be headed, I could add that one... but time to try 1.19 now [e digicons]:P[/e]
Can you be a bit more specific. Does the AI never equip new stuff or is it just too slow to capitalize on equipping new stuff gained by tech? I honestly don't know.
I moved the mount issue into Community confirmed status and changed from "never uses mounts" to "very, very rarely uses mounts." Thanks Xia [e digicons]:cylon:[/e] Hmm... Just noticed that the Borg smilie might be more appropriate for demandobots, after all, we share some superficial similarities to human beings: [e digicons]:borg:[/e]
We are the Demandobots [e digicons]:cylon:[/e] https://forums.elementalgame.com/404518/page/1/#2876891 It is our nature to relentlessly demand AI improvements. Our programming has the following rules: 1. We demand specific impro
Heh, I can see how Brad's PR guy/gal may have a difficult time occasionally [e digicons];)[/e] Being one of the Demandobots, I think it's time to get organized according to the way Frogboy said. We need a "Grand Demandobot AI Thread" on the Elemental Support forum. Seriously. The first post should have a moderated list of specific AI issues / requests. They should be categorized as confirmed (not just a single sighting, prefe
TorinReborn: Yes, the beta build should be available on Impulse if you click on "show pre-release versions". I would like to second the notion put forward by TheProgress and many others. The AI is still rather weak and we've now had a month with apparently no work to the strategic AI. No matter how large the team is, the bottleneck seems painfully obvious from this vantage point. I would also like to thank you for all the incoming changes, though. They seem great and I really
[quote who="CHiZZoPs" reply="176" id="2876081"]I still don't get why tactical magic doesn't have a spell skill rating ala MoM. Just have it be based of off intelligence, and suddenly int becomes a bit more important. A 25 int could mean 25 mana pts could be used in combat, in the case of a 1:1 ratio, for example.[/quote] Great idea. I really miss the way MoM handled this. E:WoM could go even better by tying it to int like you suggest, so every battle could have different max mana.
I'll second Tydorius on his proposal. The unit cohesion thing sounds like realistic, but not much fun while it adds complexity. For another game it sounds good, but not for this one.
Out of curiosity, is the new version going to include work for the strategic AI? Also, while Frogboy was testing the AI during Christmas holidays, he mentioned that a bug where an AI faction never built even their first city wasn't an AI bug, but instead a map bug. A farm was situated within a swamp or something similar. Given that this bug was recognized by Frogboy, is it being fixed?
Agreed with OP.