Is Ai Only Possible?

[Meowmeow900]

Was wondering if ai only was possible as the last time it was really able to use was in civ 5 because the ai only in civ 6 was extremely buggy and basically unplayable. One of my favorite things to do in civ games.

 

[AriochIV]

I've heard of someone doing it, but I'm guessing that they may have used some kind of mod, as it doesn't appear to be an option in the unmodded player select menu.

 

[SeelingCat]

There does appear to be autoplay similar to the one in Civ 6 - information about how to access it can be found in the below thread:

This tutorial assume you already have civ6 tuner installed, refer to the civ6 C&C section if needed.


1/ Setting the tuner

Open the "AppOptions.txt" file in the "\AppData\Local\Firaxis Games\Sid Meier's Civilization VII" folder (on Windows)

find the line

;Enable FireTuner. 1 : Enable, 2: Disable, -1 : Default
;EnableTuner -1

and set it to

EnableTuner 1

(don't forget to remove the semi-colon at the beginning)

Start a civ7 game the Tuner should say it's "connected" on the bottom left, but the "Lua States" (which is JS now) selection dropdown menu is empty

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Go to connection and click on "Refresh Lua States"

The menu should now allow to choice between "App UI" or "Tuner" (if you are in game, on the main menu only "App UI" context exists)

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Select "Tuner" context

You'll find Civ7 panel in the folder "\Steam\steamapps\common\Sid Meier's Civilization VII\Base\Platforms\Windows\Config\TunerPanels" if you want to open them, but only some are working with the old tuner, for example the AutoPlay panel is not working.

You may need to refresh the states again, and you'll have to do so if you exit back to the main menu and start a new game.


2/ Launch Autoplay

The panel doesn't, but the commands themselves are working.

Here is the sequence to start an AutoPlay as observer, then end it

Autoplay.setObserveAsPlayer(1000)
Autoplay.setReturnAsPlayer(0)
Autoplay.setActive(true)
Autoplay.setActive(false)

"1000" is observer with full vision, "-1" means no observer (run faster I suppose), and you can use a playerID to run with that player's visibility.

edit: you need to set a valid return number before calling Autoplay.setActive(true)

All commands for Autoplay are

setActive
setTurns
setReturnAsPlayer
setObserveAsPlayer
setAsLocalPlayer
setPause

 

[Meowmeow900]

There does appear to be autoplay similar to the one in Civ 6 - information about how to access it can be found in the below thread:

thank you for the in depth tutorial i really do appreciate it