minor: AI building priorities

[Quetz]

While I'm not too clear on how the AI chooses what to build in their cities, after many a time looking at their cities in Worldbuilder, I have noticed a certain pattern.

1) The AI will almost NEVER build markets, which boggles my mind. Maybe because of the -1 research penalty?

2) The Clan almost never builds Warrens. Nowadays I go through their cities after 50 turns or so and just add them myself to keep them from sucking as much.

3) However, the AI does build the much-higher costing Inns on a regular basis.

Nothing major here, just something that might be well to adjust.

 

[notque]

Certainly something to be addressed. There are a lot of weird issues with the build AI, and there are a few ways to handle it. (quick and dirty, or larger rewrites)

 

[WarKirby]

He's the AI guy ^^^^^

 

[notque]

While I'm not too clear on how the AI chooses what to build in their cities, after many a time looking at their cities in Worldbuilder, I have noticed a certain pattern.

1) The AI will almost NEVER build markets, which boggles my mind. Maybe because of the -1 research penalty?

2) The Clan almost never builds Warrens. Nowadays I go through their cities after 50 turns or so and just add them myself to keep them from sucking as much.

3) However, the AI does build the much-higher costing Inns on a regular basis.

Nothing major here, just something that might be well to adjust.

I see markets built all the time.

Inns being built too often is a huge problem.

I will keep an eye out on markets, but 2 and 3 certainly need to be addressed. Probably adding some new values on buildings that are relevant to Fall Further to push them in the directions they need.

 

[Quetz]

heh, turn 300 and I just went through 3 civs (sheiam, austrin, and lanun) and added markets to all of their cities. I think maybe 1 or 2 out of 30ish had a market, heh.

 

[xienwolf]

AI Priorities (ie - major overhaul) are essentially:

Proper Land Improvement
Proper Building Selection (meaning anything a city builds, not Buildings only. So projects, Units, Wonders, Heroes...)
Proper Tech Choices


Each is critical, and that is in order of influence on AI capability AND complexity to program. Little tweaks will happen here and there outside of this order, but that is the big push for cleaning up how the AI conducts business.