When you will end this, talk with whoward about merging dll mods
Yeah, at least there's a minimal code that's pure bug fixing, so that code should be in any dll mod.
Some findings I did on the AI tactical code:
- For each map tile there's a tactical consideration of tile danger, but that danger is calculated solely based on the unit strength divided by the turns will take the unit to reach the tile. As moving to water takes an entire turn using embark, that makes water tiles many times "safer" in AI thinking for land units. Also may explain why AI is so poor against artillery, as it has more range than movement, danger assigned is much less than real danger.
- Air strategies are quite messy, there's an air sweep and intercept missions but conditions are poor, and little to do with real necessities. Air sweep strategy looks only cities with fighters, and doesn't take into non-air units able to intercept. Intercept look if there's any air unit in 10 tiles (yes, fixed value) from the air unit witch may intercept.
Well, here's my progress:
- I optimized the move and attack for ranged, now I search for tiles in some area formed by the target and the unit itself, so no recursivity is used, should be a fast calculation.
- AI is much more aware of enemy ranged units, if the tile distance is equal or less than a unit range, it counts as if that unit could reach to the tile in the same turn.
I am reworking all the air sweep/interception/rebase handling. Air sweep action is now part of a normal attack action, so ater looking for units in range for the target, we check if air units will participate in such attack, and then look for air sweep capable units in range, we calculate max interceptions on the target and send that many air units to sweep on the target, then execute such attacks.
I'm still thinking how to fit interception with air sweep so AI could use both actions actively without one of them eclipsing the other when both actions could take all air sweep capable planes
