Making advisor useful

[captainmission]

So advisors are back in, and whislt fun in civ2 weren't particularly useful. But reading about the improvements to the AI; how it can set smaller sub strategries along side the big picture; how about adopting the same take with advisors- being able to set strategies or pose questions to them.

So instead of having a military advisor that always says 'build for troops' or 'research gunpowder' when you have anything short of largest army on earth, you can say 'i want to win a cultural victory' and he'll change his advice accordingly. So now its a case of 'you've got a big enough army to defend your empire but we need a strike force incase city x is about to launch the space ship'.

Or asking more specific questionns; like 'i want to invade india' or 'i need to secure more iron'. The cutrual advisor might pipe up 'these cities might suffer war weariness try building a theatre' or the foreign advisor might suggest woeing a near by city or that there allies france may support them in the war or the military advisor may suggest how to counter indias strong cavalry or knock a poorly defended board town that supplies their copper.

It would make advisors useful and bring back a sense of the bickering as each one tries to argue for there stratergy to be adopted.

 

[Herrhals]

sounds good to me

ManU sucks tehe

 

[Mango Elephant]

I agree with this.

 

[Insanity_X]

um saying Man U sucks would probably be more apropriate if they didn't just beat AC Milan 4 - nill.

And the advisers will probably continue to give useful(ish) advise at a newbie level. anybody who's thinking strategically will have to work out their solutions themselves.

 

[Souron]

That's a good idea. You could set the same AI modifiers for advisers that exist for AI civs, with the default setting being generated the same way as the AI civs. The adviser would tell you what an AI civ would do in your shoes.

Then you don't need to write special subsystems, since you get it for free. And if you follow it, you will be at worst on even footing with the AI.

 

[sumit1207]

Since it said the advisors are really only geared toward new players, I imagine they aren't a big aspect of the game at all. Like maybe the suggestions ala Civ4, except now with static pictures!