AI causes Fatal Error

[Kam]

So after receiving many crash reports on my map yet never encountering it myself, I decided to do some testing. The results were that the map only receives a fatal error when an AI is in play.

What about an AI file could cause this?

 

[Vengeancekael]

Is it a triggered ai or an ai created with the ai editor? It could be that the memory gets full with too many ai configurations (like do that and that and that and that, then it could become an infinite loop)

 

[Kam]

There are 6 AI scripts, three per race, and they are made using the standard AI editor.

How could I tell if that was the case?

 

[Vengeancekael]

Well 6 ai players could overflow the memory, you should try it with triggers, that could be more efficient.

 

[Aesthetics]

Aren't triggers much more difficult?

 

[Kam]

Yes, it's very complicated to do with triggers.

 

[Vengeancekael]

Well it can be difficult, but it's way more efficient and smooth than the ai editor.

 

[Mechanical Man]

Not necessarily, unless your map is very altered, bothering with triggers it's not advisable. Kam's map has gameplay close to warcraft.

However, every of those scripts crash the game? When it crashes? At the beginning or after some time? You may observe each of those scripts, to see at which point it crashes.

 

[Kam]

Here is the trigger data, I would appreciate any help.

The crash generally occurs 15-25 minutes into a game. AI must be present.

 

[Kam]

The problem has been solved.

In the standard AI editor I had set the heroes to learn abilities, except what I did not realize is that if you set a hero as the 1st hero and it doesn't get that hero it constantly tries to upgrade those abilities even though they don't exist - hence why this problem always happened about 15-20 minutes into the game.

Currently heroes will not learn their abilities, but no more fatal errors. I've played dozens of games in the past few days with no errors.

 

[LordDz]

The problem has been solved.

In the standard AI editor I had set the heroes to learn abilities, except what I did not realize is that if you set a hero as the 1st hero and it doesn't get that hero it constantly tries to upgrade those abilities even though they don't exist - hence why this problem always happened about 15-20 minutes into the game.

Currently heroes will not learn their abilities, but no more fatal errors. I've played dozens of games in the past few days with no errors.

Just use triggers for the computer heroes? I mean, they level up - you increase the level of one of their abilities.

 

[Kam]

I will deal with it in the next patch, I wanted to release because there were a lot of imbalance issues I needed to address with the Seed.

For those having similar issues though this solution should be stickied somewhere.