How to force the AI to build weaker units

[Redback]

4) Make the hull upgrade to the full version.

Exemple:
Destroyer 8/8. Hull 6/6
Battleship : 20:20, Hull 5/5.

Euhm...can you be more specific? 8/8 means? Att/Def? And what about the amount of shields?

 

[Steph]

Details are irrelevent, you'll have to adapt them to your own mod / scenario, this is just to explain the principle.

 

[tom2050]

Ok, I'm putting this here to see if anyone else has ran into this. I have my Hull unit which upgrades to the King unit. The King unit is NOT buildable on the unit list.

The AI does build and upgrade Hull units, but occasionally it also Builds the King unit directly out of the city (thus it is made with the civ leaders name), and it is not on the unit list.

Strange? Yes. How does this happen? Don't know, it should be impossible. Anyone else see anything like this?

Tom

I know I'm quoting myself (and therefore answering my own question ), but I believe that this is the reason why sometimes when building a hull unit (AI and human player), why you occasionally build the actual king unit instead of the hull.

I have noticed during my test game, I had a couple cities building hull units (the king unit is not buildable via the city screen, therefore is unselectable to build). Then a few turns later I noticed that those cities were then building the actual non-hull king unit. I was somewhat flabbergasted for a minute.

Then I remembered that I just finished researching a technology a couple turns back. I believe that if you research a technology, while building the hull unit, the computer will automatically change production to the king unit that the hull upgrades to. This is why I see (when playing SID difficulty) many more ships that are named after that civ's leaders. When playing low difficulty, most ships are produced correctly (hull unit which requires upgrade to king unit) since AI doesn't research as fast.

In my test game, I have a few more turns before I research the next technology, and I will verify if this is the cause or not.

Tom

 

[Madeira]

This is why the "hull" unit shouldnt be buildable as well
Unfortunate, but the only way for this to work without any problems is for the hull unit be unbuildable too, and produced by city improvements or wonders. I've tested this before and reached this conclusion, dont remember all the facts now but im pretty sure of this.