of course the AI cheats! I wish it didnt need to but it does...
it has cheated since the original generals!
it cheats because it is too dumb to know that it has to save 2000 for a supply depot or to expand or to do anything like that!
the computer has also set basebuilding spaces that cannot be changed unless i mod every single map in ZH, whcih means it cannot ever expand as well as human and buld say 50 black markets!
the AI on hard cheats and my AI is never different, and im even reducing the amount it cheats from the first version, trading it for money it gets from actual supply centers and others like hackers and drop zones...
that line i added is simply to make sure it can build superweapons and survive later in the game. it does not prevent it from having below 5000 at all but is a smarter income support giving it money only if it needs it... it also makes up for it having to pay for all the chinooks that come with supply centers it builds(now that it builds a lot more of them)...
as far as i can see there is no command for selling one building.. it can only sell all of it as in surrendering.
facing all such aspects the AI is at a tremendous disdvantage against humans, it is dumb, it cannot learn, it cannot do half the stuff we do, it is ridden by bugs EA never stomped.
Now if you can make a very hard AI that doesnt cheat at all, feel free.. ill even create you a website for it... If you think im doing it the wrong way, please feel free to do it yourself and show the community how you can make a clever AI that doesnt need cheats. bear in mind that you can make it a lot smarter by creating a neural network of scripts but that would take years to finish and would eat at least some thirty times the computing power EA's AI does so maybe in year 2015 we will be able to have a 7 AI game that will play at an acceptable speed..
but hey im looking forward to you publishing your non cheating AI. its great to have someone that wont bother spending many months making a super AI as smart as humans.
as i improve the AIs more and more it will cheat less and less but i dont think ill ever make it so it doesnt cheat as it will be just too easy.
Blame EA not me...
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