[ian-reeds-games] Re: AI is wasting potential to make things harder
- From: Monkey <murtagh69.monkeys@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: ian-reeds-games@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2015 19:42:53 -0700
Hello,
Thing about the Age of Warlords maps, at least from what I've seen, is
that the dragons have their own point for summoning. So theoretically
the AI should summon them if it can't summon whatever comes before
them in the skillset. However, since they both use action points,
that's probably why the AI doesn't summon dragons.
I've seen this with my own map pack too. The AI seems to always pick
the first summoning skill, and it will only use another if it no
longer has points for the first one... For example, my orc commander
summons demons, and the skill takes 5 AP's. It can use the skill twice
and then it has one AP left, so then it will call a minion--another
orc--because that's the summon skill that appears after the demon one.
I've never seen it summon sappers though, which is the skill that
appears below the call minion one.
So I guess even having different points for individual units doesn't
help, and I agree with you, randomizing which summon skill the unit or
structure uses would be nice!
I know that doesn't help; I'm pretty much agreeing with you and just
giving my own example hahaha.
On 2/27/15, Sharni-Lee Ward <sharni-lee.ward@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi again,
>
> This is mostly relevant to Age of Warlords, as I haven't seen another map
> pack where units can be summoned by structures. Basically, I just beat the
> first Tale of Two Cities map in Age of Warlords, but the AI only summoned
> units if there were enough of the necessary point to summon them, starting
> from the top and working their way down. This meant that the Terran Citadel
> never summoned catapults or their tyrants, Anti-Paladins were few before I
> obliterated the Monastery, and no dragons were summoned at all. It took me
> ages to beat the map anyways, but this strikes me as selling the experience
> short. Can something be done so that the AI summons units more randomly,
> maybe by working in order of highest amount to lowest (That's what I do
> personally, except when I really want catapults to blow something up with)?
> Much as the AI doesn't waste an action it's given, seeing great quantities
> of platinum, gold, electrum and Arcane just sitting there not being utilised
> felt slightly disappointing. :(
>
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