More Naval AI (FfH mod) 2.71

AI

• Infernals will no longer create the Glory Everlasting project
• AI more interested in buildings that let them train units who are higher tier than any they currently own
• some tweaks to AI_foundValue(); AI less interested in water tiles until it can work them; AI gives some value to Canal and Choke points
• Added a couple of additional checks for isMaintainFeatures() that weren't in place before
• increasing AIvalue for Mithril
• increased AI minimum attack odds in a number of places; Patrol groups more likely to explore lairs and deal with nearby danger
• slightly increased situational awareness when AI is valuing spells that add or remove promotions
• tweaks to how AI values bonuses (using happiness, health and commerce weights when valuing bonuses that change those values; Sheaim should be more interested in Death mana; civs with desert terrain should be more interested in water mana
• Loki will put less value on trying to turn cities that arent bordering his civ; AI should try to reserve a node for MetaMagic if pursuing a Tower Victory
• account for isNoUnhappiness() and isNoUnhealthyPopulation() when determining AI_getHappinessWeight and AI_getHealthWeight respectively
• minor tweaks to how the AI values pursuing Tower and Altar victories; tweak to the AI_magicCombatValue() function
• added a hack to help the AI better evaluate the combat potential of Pyre Zombies
• removed negative AIweights from Disciples, Lunatics and Asylums
• AI should place a little more value on techs that allow commerce improvements and little less on religions; AI will place more value on feature clearing techs when they have blocked resources
• AI will build more troops when at war; AI will use commerceWeight vlaues when valuing buildings that add commerce
• increased minimum odds for a number of attack checks; added some randomness to how barbarians choose target cities; added some checks to try and encourage the AI to attack undefended cities; tweaked how the AI decides how big of a group it needs to attack a city

Bugfixes

• fix for an assert related to Advanced Diplomacy
• the Revelation spell no longer has any pyRequirements (fix for issue #97)
• Fix deal auto-cancelling bug
• Fix for text not showing for Perfect Sight provided by Pallens Engine
• Demonic Citizens are now flagged as Infernal only (fix for bugs #115 - Puppet States getting Demonic Citizens
• Fix for players being able to make multiple Puppets from one civ
• added a bunch of missing XML entries for various Advanced Diplomacy tags. Should help the AI be less crazy about offering deals when Advanced Tactics is on.
• switched out text for a hint that had outdated info (bugs #122)
• Fix for Embassy not showing in the Advanced Scoreboard (fix for issue #80)
• Held units can no longer cast releaseFromCage
• Updated scenarios to fix issue with them failing to load from the in-game menu (issue #113)
• fix for error when using the auto Unit Naming option with UNITAI_ANIMAL
• AI / Code - Adding CIV4YieldInfos.xml to the mod. It was defaulting to base Civ4 values which gave Production a weight of 110%, food 100% and commerce 80%. They are now all 100%. The AI does lots of situational calculating in the DLL and these weight values arent really needed for this mod.
• removed a hacky section of AI code I had added a while back; Tweak to keep the AI from building too many ships for escorting missionaries

User Interface

• River of Blood message will now include the name of the affected city as well as the real amount of population lost
• research bonuses from Bonuses are now displayed as a percenatge increase in the research mouseover in the city screen
• when viewing improvement upgrade times in debug mode, interface will take into account civ-specific improvements for the player owning the plot

General

• Puppet States now get a few more initial defenders on creation
• Dragons are now Disease Immune
• Workboats no longer flagged as MilitaryProduction
• Disabled POWtrading for the Writing tech (didnt want to remove the tag entirely and break save games)
• Barbarian cities with culture can no longer be culture flipped (may effect mods!)

Code

• Additional logging
• removed some obsolete hardcode related to Freak Shows