Pirate AI for land unit

[peter450]

I am thinking of adding a Assasin/Ninja unit to my game

It's basically going to be a national unit, only with a low numbers limit

Basically it's going to be a privateer on land, as in it will have no nationality and be able to get attacked/attack anyone

Will the AI be able to work it, or is pirate AI for ships only? if so i'l just give it a counter unit AI or something, i'm sure the AI will fuddle through, but would prefer to use pirate AI if it will work?

 

[Cybah]

there is currently no pirate AI for land units. dunno if this can be coded.

 

[peter450]

If i used a attack AI or counter AI would it work as in, run around and attack etc, even if the ai uses it rather shoddily?

 

[Cybah]

No, will be used like any other normal unit. The AI won't attack without declaring war.

 

[peter450]

Is there a way for me to tell the AI not to build this unit at all?, no point in me handicapping it with a unit it cant use

 

[Cybah]

deleting all AI scripts for that unit?

 

[jdog5000]

There's no good UNITAI for a land pirate.

You could give it the UNITAI_EXPLORE ... they AI won't try to build many, but will occasionally send one out and would attack or pillage with it if it came across the right situation.

UNITAI_PILLAGE would almost be okay, except that it would group with other non-hidden nationality units sometimes.

The AI will lose these units very quickly though after the mid-game, when all other AIs have many units sitting around checking for any attacks they can make every turn.

 

[peter450]

Thats the problem, hence why i'm tending towards the tell it not to build it

<DefaultUnitAI>UNITAI_ATTACK</DefaultUnitAI> is there a command i can put in here? or do i have to put every ai routine in the not unit ai field?

<NotUnitAIs>
<UnitAI>
<UnitAIType>UNITAI_CITY_DEFENSE</UnitAIType>
<bUnitAI>1</bUnitAI>
</UnitAI>
</NotUnitAIs>

 

[phungus420]

Look at the privateer for your answer.

You will need to set the default to UNITAI_EXPLORE and the unitAIs field with a single type, ie the same UNITAI_EXPLORE, and you'll need to set the notunitAI field with all unitAI types that could be relevant (basically everything pertaining to ground units except missionary, spy and merchant)

 

[peter450]

Thanks, this may sound like a silly question but i take it the unitai_explore also needs to go in the no unit ai list, or will that cause a conflict?

 

[phungus420]

Thanks, this may sound like a silly question but i take it the unitai_explore also needs to go in the no unit ai list, or will that cause a conflict?

That will cause a conflict, you can't tell it to give it that and only that UnitAI and then tell it it can't use it

Like I said, look at the privateer, it should be self explanitory if you use the privateer as a model (just substitute UNITAI_PIRATE for UNITAI_EXPLORE, and for all the notUnitAis fill it with all relevant ground UnitAI types, like I said, pretty much everything except UNITAI_MISSIONARY, UNITAI_SPY, and UNITAI_MERCHANT --you don't need to exclude these three because the AI will never consider a combat unit able to use them anyway)

 

[peter450]

I think i finally get it, thanks took me a while to get me head around all this AI stuff