The "real" solution is to modify the C++ code to handle all cases properly. The issue is that it has already been announced that this is a too difficult technical approach. iAIWeight has the benefit of working without recompiling. Compiling has always been too difficult and it is my impression that it has always hurt the modding community. C2C and WTP comes with scripted compiling and doesn't need people to set up the compiler in order to compile. I wish that would be the default for all mods, but the scripted approach is not trivial to set up.
Well it's not like it won't work like it didn't manage to explore. The AI can be stupid at times. The perhaps worst I have seen is the AI deciding that cutting down all forests would be good. Since this was in We The People (maybe back when it was called RaR), no forests meant the city could no longer build buildings. This has since been fixed and the current AI is way better than vanilla in developing cities so the AI can be improved given the options we have. It's just not technically trivial to do so.I had at some point AI exploring with battering rams.
Yep, I was working off that assumption and hence suggested a different XML tag to edit, which wouldn't require recompiling either.
Oh it was absolutely terrible at exploring. It was slow and would become a snack for the first wolf it came across.
Sapporo (or rather the barbarian city that becomes it when captured) is the only one of those pre-placed on the map, the rest is AI Japan founding wherever it pleases. As RI is not centred around the world map scenario (however, some players might like that to be the case), I am not spending hours upon hours hardcoding all the tiles with the city names for them. So yeah, most of those locations are random (though if I switch Kyoto to be the first city in the list, it will also get placed properly, as to my knowledge AI always founds the first city on the starting spot).One side note. The screenshot confused me at first. Real Kyoto is where Edo is placed. Real Osaka is one plot further south and real Edo is on the rice south of Kyoto (it was renamed to Tokyo in mid 19th century). Sapporo is however placed correctly (maybe it should be one post to the west. Not sure). Ironically noticing Sapporo first gave me some sort of expectation of real placements, so it would be less confusing if it had been placed elsewhere
Wouldn't be able to help you there, as air unit AI is very heavily modded in RI, sorry. Actually, given you don't modify the DLL yourself in any case, have you considered adopting K-Mod as the base for yours? I'd bet it improves air unit handling by AI.
I did a quick test myself, and air units don't get their values displayed there, for whatever reason. So I might have misled you on the usefulness of this for air units specifically.
mega is a simple way to upload things
I think you are answering your own question - if you observe inadequate use of air units then that is a more valuable observation than what you can glean from the code. After all, if it was easy to tell from the code that it wouldn't be successful at ensuring adequate use of air units, it wouldn't have been written that way.
You should/could try ai auto play with and without weight changes. You'd learn much more that way than just talking theoretically.
The screenshot was AI autoplay, yes. Based on what I was seeing, and the air units tag missed on the lists to the left, it would be my guess [without knowing the code], that the weights do not apply at all to fighters/bombers
I meant to AI autoplay the same save twice: with and without AI weight changes. If the results are the same (very similar) than AI weights aren't considered.
