Acken's Minimalistic Balance for singleplayer (and AI improvements)

[Jaybe]

There seems to be something wrong ever since I took the mini update. I cannot load a game save directly anymore, I have to load the mod first and then the game save. Any ideas how I can fix this?

I have always loaded mods first before loading a saved game; I had read long ago that loading a modded game directly risked ... problems, that the mods would sometimes (often?) not load correctly.

It's just a couple extra mouse clicks and probably a lot of saved time to follow a recommended procedure.

 

[wayneb64]

I took a copy of version 6 before I let Steam update to version 7. I may delete that Steam version and manually apply version 7. Any chance that will break my existing game? Really don't want to lose it as this is the best Immortal start I have had so far.

 

[wayneb64]

I have always loaded mods first before loading a saved game; I had read long ago that loading a modded game directly risked ... problems, that the mods would sometimes (often?) not load correctly.

It's just a couple extra mouse clicks and probably a lot of saved time to follow a recommended procedure.

I have been playing this mod for months, always directly loading the game without issue. Just this last week it started hanging/crashing on load. It's just a QoL feature but if I can fix it, so much the better.

 

[Acken]

All these should be save game compatible between them

 

[wayneb64]

I replaced the Steam version with that from Drop Box and I get the same issue, a run time error if I load directly but loads fine once I load the mod.

 

[Acken]

Maybe a cache delete could solve the issue I don't know this is a game bug.

 

[V3n0mous]

Do you guys get the free great person at end of liberty? It doesn't work for me.

I built the oracle but I don't think that would affect it.

 

[Chum]

Yes, that'd be a pretty big bug.

 

[wayneb64]

I have always gotten a free great person with Liberty finisher, got one on my current game yesterday.

 

[Acken]

Do you guys get the free great person at end of liberty? It doesn't work for me.

I built the oracle but I don't think that would affect it.

Works fine o my end. Have you tried to use ige for further testing ? You can also try reinstalling the mod. Also sometimes civ5 bugs and doesnt load mods properly. Quittig and reloading can solve this issue.

 

[V3n0mous]

Yeah was conflicting with another mod, thank you for helping and for doing this, I feel like its the most polished mod so far!

EDIT: New question:

Sometimes the AI will send 1 unit to another one my cities while at war, and just move back and forth out of city range. Sometimes will go in on top of improved tiles like academies, but wont pillage them even tho I have no army nearby.
This happens also frequently if the AI got a scout near my borders while at ar, it just stays there not moving while I shoot it down with an archer.

Another situation I'm curious about (attachement). The AI left a spearman near my troops (blue line) while retreating with the rest of his troops. Do you feel like this is intencional as to prevent me from advancing further while retreating, thus sacrificing a unit? Or just AI weirdness.

Also catapult retreating into water tile, instead of garrisoning in city to attack me next turn.

I understand some things are very difficult to do, just generally curious about how one goes modding the AI to make it smarter.

Do you feel like this happens often in your games?

 

[mejobloggs_]

On v7 I'm getting a few times where the AI offer a trade and when I click accept they're like... naah just kidding.

Also, I'm in progress of a game where I started on an island on myself. How do I get gold? I've previously managed by using caravans but there's no one in range

 

[consentient]

jobloggs, I'd just reroll. Isolated starts are no fun whatsoever, IMO.

 

[OzzyKP]

I don't know if this is a bug or I'm just extremely lucky, but I started a game with this mod and I've seen an inordinate number of goody huts available. Even some that were right next to other civs.

Does the AI deprioritize popping huts? Or explore less?

 

[Acken]

I havent touch the ai exploratoon algorithm. But there are more ruins in the mod maybe a little too many.

 

[Acken]

Yeah was conflicting with another mod, thank you for helping and for doing this, I feel like its the most polished mod so far!

EDIT: New question:

Sometimes the AI will send 1 unit to another one my cities while at war, and just move back and forth out of city range. Sometimes will go in on top of improved tiles like academies, but wont pillage them even tho I have no army nearby.
This happens also frequently if the AI got a scout near my borders while at ar, it just stays there not moving while I shoot it down with an archer.

Another situation I'm curious about (attachement). The AI left a spearman near my troops (blue line) while retreating with the rest of his troops. Do you feel like this is intencional as to prevent me from advancing further while retreating, thus sacrificing a unit? Or just AI weirdness.

Also catapult retreating into water tile, instead of garrisoning in city to attack me next turn.

I understand some things are very difficult to do, just generally curious about how one goes modding the AI to make it smarter.

Do you feel like this happens often in your games?

These are just normal poor ai behavior. All these are also vanilla issues. I am not good enough to modify the tactical ai. I probably will look into adding some more of AUI mod in the future.

 

[OzzyKP]

Darn, now the game keeps crashing.

I'm just using this and the Extended User Interface. The first game I made it like 75 turns or so, but then I couldn't advance the turn without it crashing. I started a new game and I made it around 20 turns or so before it crashed. It crashes after I finish the turn.

Any ideas?

 

[V3n0mous]

I've also seen more Ruins but nothing too over the top. Play a few more games to see if it still happens

 

[OzzyKP]

Ok, I tracked down some crash logs:

Spoiler :

+ System

- Provider

[ Name] Application Error

- EventID 1000

[ Qualifiers] 0

Level 2

Task 100

Keywords 0x80000000000000

- TimeCreated

[ SystemTime] 2016-07-03T19:56:49.939308100Z

EventRecordID 37199

Channel Application

Computer AlexLaptop

Security


- EventData

CivilizationV_DX11.exe
1.0.3.279
546cd0a8
CvGameCore_Expansion2.dll
3.0.3.0
576d6bf4
c0000005
0012e4cb
16c0
01d1d562198ee52e
C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Sid Meier's Civilization V\CivilizationV_DX11.exe
C:\Users\Alex\Documents\My Games\Sid Meier's Civilization 5\MODS\Acken's Minimalistic Balance (v 7)\CvGameCore_Expansion2.dll
c22ac468-3f91-47cb-80e7-44511377a6d1




+ System

- Provider

[ Name] Windows Error Reporting

- EventID 1001

[ Qualifiers] 0

Level 4

Task 0

Keywords 0x80000000000000

- TimeCreated

[ SystemTime] 2016-07-03T19:57:01.820702400Z

EventRecordID 37200

Channel Application

Computer AlexLaptop

Security


- EventData

108263732029
1
APPCRASH
Not available
107672644515
CivilizationV_DX11.exe
1.0.3.279
546cd0a8
CvGameCore_Expansion2.dll
3.0.3.0
576d6bf4
c0000005
0012e4cb


C:\Users\Alex\AppData\Local\Temp\WERB0E4.tmp.WERInternalMetadata.xml C:\Users\Alex\AppData\Local\Temp\WERBCCC.tmp.appcompat.txt C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\WER\Temp\WERC43F.tmp.dmp C:\Users\Alex\AppData\Local\Temp\WERC922.tmp.WERDataCollectionFailure.txt
C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\WER\ReportArchive\AppCrash_CivilizationV_DX_a9cd70b3a4b6f681268cb7be2b2daa36edc4ee_a52864c8_cab_1e8cdd91

0
c22ac468-3f91-47cb-80e7-44511377a6d1
8
c14843e229dd4b8cfa3b1741310dc8c9


+ System

- Provider

[ Name] Windows Error Reporting

- EventID 1001

[ Qualifiers] 0

Level 4

Task 0

Keywords 0x80000000000000

- TimeCreated

[ SystemTime] 2016-07-03T19:10:28.491424300Z

EventRecordID 37193

Channel Application

Computer AlexLaptop

Security


- EventData

108263732029
1
APPCRASH
Not available
0
CivilizationV_DX11.exe
1.0.3.279
546cd0a8
CvGameCore_Expansion2.dll
3.0.3.0
576d6bf4
c0000005
0012e4cb


C:\Users\Alex\AppData\Local\Temp\WER22E8.tmp.WERInternalMetadata.xml
C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\WER\ReportArchive\AppCrash_CivilizationV_DX_a9cd70b3a4b6f681268cb7be2b2daa36edc4ee_a52864c8_15e63df2

0
c4757d39-ff38-4121-9792-1ad3217a220f
0
c14843e229dd4b8cfa3b1741310dc8c9

+ System

- Provider

[ Name] Application Error

- EventID 1000

[ Qualifiers] 0

Level 2

Task 100

Keywords 0x80000000000000

- TimeCreated

[ SystemTime] 2016-07-03T19:10:21.090651100Z

EventRecordID 37192

Channel Application

Computer AlexLaptop

Security


- EventData

CivilizationV_DX11.exe
1.0.3.279
546cd0a8
CvGameCore_Expansion2.dll
3.0.3.0
576d6bf4
c0000005
0012e4cb
1ab4
01d1d55d985089bb
C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Sid Meier's Civilization V\CivilizationV_DX11.exe
C:\Users\Alex\Documents\My Games\Sid Meier's Civilization 5\MODS\Acken's Minimalistic Balance (v 7)\CvGameCore_Expansion2.dll
c4757d39-ff38-4121-9792-1ad3217a220f

 

[Acken]

I cant do anything with that. Please try to replicate the crash and post the save telling me how to replicate it. Put autosave on everyturn too.

Safly there is also a good chance this is a crash not due to the mod directly but with civ5.