Lion
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21 years ago
As mentioned before im going for a complete rewrite of the AI in order to make it a lot less buggy, smarter and less CPU intensive...
im almost done with base building and im halfway through upgrades. im making it so the AI should always have some money in its pocket before building away so it can rebuild in case of attack. i also made some teams such as supply defender teams and also tunnel network guards...

the AI seems to be building defenses much more effectively and maybe even a bit over the top as the screenshot shows ๐Ÿ˜


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no hero will ever get through that lol i tried, id have to blow a large hole in his defenses, by then its easier to carry on with the attack and destroy him ๐Ÿ˜
wont be so easy once it gets anti-hero teams (radar vans + quads)

EDIT:
OMFG! I JUST LEARNT I SHOULD MAKE BACKUPS MORE OFTEN THE HARD WAY! 2 DAYS OF WORK LOST... arrr i hate world builder man!!!
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MicScoTho
21 years ago
Nice work... on that!

But as for your edit, man, that sucks. I hate when things crash and you lose stuff!
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thudo
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21 years ago
How did you lose 2 days of work? I've never had an issue with WB in regards to SCRIPT writing as I make a new .scb every hour of scripting writing. Since I started back in late Jan I'm up to 310 seperate scb files! hehehe. Then I back those up in a zip elsewhere incase those get deleted.

Safe guards always! Did WB hiccup and somehow delete the files in the /SCRIPTS folder? Seems odd.

Anyway, hope your work is reproducable! Frustrating as it is I'm sure you'll get by it!
Lion
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21 years ago
lol thanks for the support guys i was in need of it ๐Ÿ˜!
im a bit disorganized... my crash was caused i think because i tried to outsmart WB and it got mad and screwed me over:
that tmpchunk file = annoying as it screws AI up
deleting it = it comes back
making an empty read only file with that name = sounded like a great idea
wb needed to write on it for some reason = skirmishscripts.scb 1kb ๐Ÿ˜Ž
WB 1 - Leon 0

ah well
i know what i done from the top of my head i can redo all that in a couple of hours i think, ill start work soon and see when i finish...

from now on ill just backup 2x a day instead of weekly so i suppose a two days loss isnt too bad considering it could be 7!

anyhow, the AI built those defenses in a clever way by always keeping some 2-3k in the bank...
it pays for its own black markets, initial supply stashes and defenses so far, just main base buildings it gets a little extra help to make it harder but im planning to make it pay for it later in a borrowing system i came up with (even going to install a nice display showing how much each of them has in debt ๐Ÿ˜)
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rlgl81
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21 years ago
Your really something Lion! Always working hard to improve on what you have allready improved on. You deserve a pat on the back! Good job!
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Lion
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21 years ago
Right guys i finally replaced the 2 days of lost work, i have many more backups now as well!!
The demo gen can now attack (very primitively), fire superweapons, get upgrades, use tunnel networks and rebuild its base...
the rebuilding bit is quite interesting because i completely razed his base and left only a supply depot there. i went for food and when i was back he rebuilt everything but a command center (so thats 3 arms dealers, 3 scud storms, 6 black markets a barracks a palace and some 15 defenses) and a big army of marauders, bikes, buggies and quads was destroying my base.
another thing i though it was funny to notice is i rewrote the attacking routines and now the AI sends all its got (i havent got any base defense teams yet) and doesnt focus on one target, the attacking force spread around to destroy my base instead of focusing on one place, but strangely enough they did not behave as a team, it just sent a huge assault instead of stopping by the outskirts and then attacking (must be because of the agressiveness settings i changed).
The defenses seem to work really well and it will basically build a circle of defenses that covers the WHOLE of the base, so no heroes could get in so far...
im now going to work on more upgrades, general power usage, tech building capturing and hero usage....


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Firion Corodix
21 years ago
if they dont have quads then you are air gen and put burton in combat chinook and send 10 chinooks along for missle defense and then drop burton in the base and your in. doesnยดt sound that hard, just moab the quads which are too close.
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Lion
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21 years ago
well that would cost you a crapload, a gen power and burton would last about 2 seconds after shooting/planting bombs...
im working on defense teams so hes dead on arrival
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