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C2C Supreme Commander
Changed flag from 1 to 0 see if i can get rid of that white flag for the Upaajut
C2C SVN Changelog
- Thread starter Dancing Hoskuld
- Start date
Just pushed to SVN (3714):
The stats dump will cause a lot of statistics about the current state of each player's civ to be added to the BBAI log at the end of that player's turn. The idea behind this is to be able to see, in one place, where the AI is falling behind and get some clues as to why. The stats logged are as follows:
Testing this is what enabled me to find the civic issue with patriarchy/matriarchy, which is also fixed in this rev. This was actually a problem with ANY civic that had city growth modifiers, because the AI evaluated the value of growth modifiers based on how much faster (in actual turns given the food supply, happiness excess, etc. it has) it would actually make it grow. If a city has no food surplus a changed modifier won't help, so these modifiers got very low values for cities with no net food production. The bug was that cities currently producing units using food (settlers etc.) appeared to give no benefit from these modifiers, so while a civ is buildings settlers and workers the value of things like matriarchy appeared to drop suddenly, and as a result it would often switch. After the settler/workers complete it then finds matriarchy looks much better, so it switches back...and so on. I fixed this by using the nominal food surplus (i.e. - ignoring revolutions or build-by-food in the calculation), and that seems to have settled things down.
As an example, I have included below the output from my BBAI logs a sample AI for the last turn after playing 350 turns on a small map in autoplay from a game start (this has lost its indentation for some reason when I pasted it, so it's actually slightly easier to read in real BBAI log):
As you can see it probably is still a bit civic-switch-happy, but it's doing a decent job both hunting and using its subdued animals.
Anyway, games started under this rev or later, will now include the necessary information to produce these stats at any time, so if you have a game in which the AI falls behind (or suddenly implodes), turn BBAI logging on and play a turn or two then send me the BBAI logs (or take a look for yourself as you see fit)
- Tweaked AI assessment of withdrawal and knockback effects on desirability of outcome (prevents potential suicides against high value enemy units)
- Added substantial stats logging to the BBAI logs (see below)
- Fixed a nasty issue in AI civic evaluation that was causing it to oscillate between matriarchy and patriarchy (and a few other combos)
- Added pedia text for auto-build buildings to say in the pedia that they are
- Added messages to the player when auto-build buildings get built in your cities
- Fixed a potential crash in use of the pedia from the main menu
The stats dump will cause a lot of statistics about the current state of each player's civ to be added to the BBAI log at the end of that player's turn. The idea behind this is to be able to see, in one place, where the AI is falling behind and get some clues as to why. The stats logged are as follows:
- Treasury
- Income from self
- Income from trade deals
- Units costs
- Unit supply costs
- Maintenance costs
- Corporation taxes
- Inflation costs
- Civic costs
- Total science output
- Total espionage output
- Total culture output
- Total population
- Total production
- Total food production
- Number of cities
- National rev index
- Total count of animals subdued
- Number of times a civic switch has occurred
- Number of total civic changes made
- Number of turns spent in anarchy
- For each city:
- Population
- Production
- Food surplus
- Net happyness
- Net health
- Local rev index
- Maintenance cost
- Income
- Science
- Espionage
- Culture
- Current values for all properties present
- Count of each unit type the player possesses
- Count of each building type that has been constructed by a unit that the player has (so indicates how subdued animals are being used primarily)
Testing this is what enabled me to find the civic issue with patriarchy/matriarchy, which is also fixed in this rev. This was actually a problem with ANY civic that had city growth modifiers, because the AI evaluated the value of growth modifiers based on how much faster (in actual turns given the food supply, happiness excess, etc. it has) it would actually make it grow. If a city has no food surplus a changed modifier won't help, so these modifiers got very low values for cities with no net food production. The bug was that cities currently producing units using food (settlers etc.) appeared to give no benefit from these modifiers, so while a civ is buildings settlers and workers the value of things like matriarchy appeared to drop suddenly, and as a result it would often switch. After the settler/workers complete it then finds matriarchy looks much better, so it switches back...and so on. I fixed this by using the nominal food surplus (i.e. - ignoring revolutions or build-by-food in the calculation), and that seems to have settled things down.
As an example, I have included below the output from my BBAI logs a sample AI for the last turn after playing 350 turns on a small map in autoplay from a game start (this has lost its indentation for some reason when I pasted it, so it's actually slightly easier to read in real BBAI log):
Spoiler :
As you can see it probably is still a bit civic-switch-happy, but it's doing a decent job both hunting and using its subdued animals.
Anyway, games started under this rev or later, will now include the necessary information to produce these stats at any time, so if you have a game in which the AI falls behind (or suddenly implodes), turn BBAI logging on and play a turn or two then send me the BBAI logs (or take a look for yourself as you see fit)
Praetyre
King
Update
Trimmed down my religion edit files per DH's suggestion.
Trimmed down my religion edit files per DH's suggestion.
Thunderbrd
C2C War Dog
Good stuff there Koshling! Very useful 
Hydromancerx
C2C Modder
Updates
- Added Furniture resource.
- Furniture Workshop and Furniture Factory now produce Furniture resource.
- Added Furniture resource.
- Furniture Workshop and Furniture Factory now produce Furniture resource.
Thunderbrd
C2C War Dog
Updates
Completed core Promotion Line definitions
Completed programming of bAutoPrereqHierarchy tag on Promotion Lines
Tweaked retraining mechanism to not include free promotions
Completed core Promotion Line definitions
Completed programming of bAutoPrereqHierarchy tag on Promotion Lines
Tweaked retraining mechanism to not include free promotions
DamonStern
Chieftain
German translations
WTC, will be One-World-Center soon, i think; Wonka and UN-Mission.
@Revision 3722
WTC, will be One-World-Center soon, i think; Wonka and UN-Mission.
@Revision 3722
strategyonly
C2C Supreme Commander
Tweaked some traits by Sgtslick
- V26: 3550
- V25: 3259
- V24: 3011
- V23: 2538
I hope that no one is still using anyting pre-V23, if you are, please update.
Happen to know which the V26 patch was?
~3564 (that's the one I archived for my DVD). Maybe a bit earlier.
Hydromancerx
C2C Modder
Updates
- Fixed Longhouse.
- Fixed Longhouse.
Praetyre
King
Updates
Colossal number of modular building edits, testing in progress.
Colossal number of modular building edits, testing in progress.
These changes are causing about 100 XML errors as far as I can tell, so please take a look at them.
Praetyre
King
That's most likely because I accidentally deleted one of the ending tags when trimming the last few buildings. It's fixed now, and working fine for me SVN wise.
Well, a clean SVN 3734 is still giving errors, so you might want to check again.
Thunderbrd
C2C War Dog
Remember, before reporting any xml loading errors, try deleting the cache file and reloading first.
Praetyre
King
What kind of errors, exactly? Specific targeting might help me to narrow it down.
Desolator
Warlord
- Joined
- Jul 16, 2009
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It seems the main CIV4BuildingInfos.xml in SVN 3731 was accidentally replaced with a "modular only" version (where you list only the tags that are changed).
Reverting it to the previous version (attached) probably solves the problem. (Paste to the Caveman2Cosmos\Assets\XML\Buildings\ folder.)
