AI base defense

tekka warrior · Posted: Sat Nov 23, 2013 9:17 pm Post subject: AI base defense

Hello.

Some of you already know i added a guard tower for the soviet faction, which can be garrisoned.

However, the AI seems to build only 1 guard tower, instead of treating it like a sentry gun (or an original base defense)

Building code:

; Soviet Guard Tower
[NATOWR]
UIName=Name:NATOWR
Name=Soviet Guard Tower
BuildCat=combat
Strength=800
Armor=Steel
Prerequisite=NACNST,NAHAND
TechLevel=1
Adjacent=4
ROT=15
Sight=15
DetectDisguise=yes
Owner=British,French,Germans,Americans,Alliance,Russians,Confederation,Africans,Arabs,YuriCountry
AIBasePlanningSide=1
Cost=800
BaseNormal=no
Points=30
Power=0
Crewed=yes
Capturable=true
Explosion=TWLT070,S_BANG48,S_BRNL58,S_CLSN58,S_TUMU60
DebrisAnims=DBRIS4LG,DBRIS4SM,DBRIS6LG
MinDebris=5
MaxDebris=10
ThreatPosed=30 ; This value MUST be 0 for all building addons
DamageParticleSystems=SparkSys,LGSparkSys
IsBaseDefense=yes
HasStupidGuardMode=false
ImmuneToPsionics=no ; defaults to yes for buildings, no for others
CanBeOccupied=yes
Trainable=yes
AIBuildThis=yes
MaxNumberOccupants=4
CanOccupyFire=yes

Is there anything i need to modify/add, in order to make the AI build this defense like all others?

Thank you.

gameaddict11707 · Grenadier **Joined**: 15 Jul 2011

Add NATOWR to the SovietBaseDefenses= list.

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tekka warrior · Posted: Sat Nov 23, 2013 9:42 pm Post subject:

I did , the AI still builds 1 only.

What else?

Agent Z · Posted: Sat Nov 23, 2013 10:11 pm Post subject:

I suspect you need those:
AntiInfantryValue=
AntiArmorValue=
AntiAirValue=
Sentry gun uses 25, 10 and 0

Rulesmd wrote:

These three are in abstract units and just help the AI pick the right base defense.

PillBox20 · Posted: Sat Nov 23, 2013 10:40 pm Post subject:

Agent Z wrote:

I suspect you need those:
AntiInfantryValue=
AntiArmorValue=
AntiAirValue=
Sentry gun uses 25, 10 and 0

Rulesmd wrote:

These three are in abstract units and just help the AI pick the right base defense.

I think that these help the AI picking the right target. If you set:
AntiInfantryValue=25
AntiArmorValue=10

It will fire first on infantry, if there are vehicles and infantry.

mevitar · Missile Trooper **Joined**: 31 Dec 2010

AI will build only one building of this type when it has AIBuildThis=yes.

Agent Z · Posted: Sat Nov 23, 2013 10:59 pm Post subject:

PillBox20 wrote:

I think that these help the AI picking the right target. If you set:
AntiInfantryValue=25
AntiArmorValue=10

It will fire first on infantry, if there are vehicles and infantry.

This is written in rulesmd:

Rulesmd wrote:

These three are in abstract units and just help the AI pick the right base defense. (see AIForcePredictionFudge)

Then up next to the mentioned (see AIForcePredictionFudge):

Rulesmd wrote:

AlliedBaseDefenses=GAPILL,ATESLA,NASAM
SovietBaseDefenses=NALASR,NABNKR,TESLA,NAFLAK
ThirdBaseDefenses=YAGGUN,YAPSYT,NATBNK
AIForcePredictionFudge=5,25,80
;gs To decide what base defense to use, since all of our new ones do not
;do conventional damage, the AI will analyze the Enemy's force (in money terms)
;and pick Air Armor or Infantry. This analysis will be fudged by difficulty level by
;the above percent (+/- n%). Once the pick is made, all currently buildable base
;defenses will be made into a weighted distribution based on their AntiXXXValue numbers.
;PS, It knows to consider Rocketeer as Air, as well as Blimps and V3s

I think this means it help AI calculate which defence to build, by telling it how effective they are supposed to be vs the different targets.
The probable default of 0, would make AI consider this useless as a base defence I suppose.

tekka warrior · Posted: Sun Nov 24, 2013 10:19 am Post subject:

It worked flawlessly!

Thank you guys so much .

Agent Z · Posted: Sun Nov 24, 2013 12:48 pm Post subject:

Was it the AiBuildThis or the Anti...Values?
Would be good to know for future which one was causing this.

FurryQueen · General **Joined**: 24 Jul 2010 **Location**: Liyue

AIBuildThis. The stock base defenses don't have this tag. The AI treats them differently based up the XDefensesList tag.

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tekka warrior · Posted: Mon Nov 25, 2013 2:23 pm Post subject:

The cause was , that the anti infantry,armor,and air values were missing.It needs the 'AIBuildThis' tag, and these values i think.

Adding them fixed the issue