[General] [AI] Prevent Automatic Sell Of Items

[pred1980]

Hi,

I'm working on an AI for my mod "Forsaken Bastion's Fall".
In my game i have a shop where you can buy units and another shop where you can buy items.

1. If an AI Player buy items and move along the other shop where you can buy units, he sell the first slot of his inventory and move again to his target location.

2. Why?

3. How can i prevent this behavior? I dont want that the heroes sell its items on any shop except i tell them to do that!

Reg.
Patrick

 

[neo_sluf]

Hi,

I'm working on an AI for my mod "Forsaken Bastion's Fall".
In my game i have a shop where you can buy units and another shop where you can buy items.

1. If an AI Player buy items and move along the other shop where you can buy units, he sell the first slot of his inventory and move again to his target location.

2. Why?

3. How can i prevent this behavior? I dont want that the heroes sell its items on any shop except i tell them to do that!

Reg.
Patrick

I didn't encounter this problem on my AI Systems on my Hero Arena maps.

Instead of using orders I manually detect their gold and use give item and remove item.

 

[pred1980]

I do the same, i tell the AI to buy items but on the way to a new target location they come across another shop (only units) and they sell the item automaticly. I don't tell them to do that!

 

[Warseeker]

Make that item unable to sell if owned by your AI player.

 

[pred1980]

is that possible via trigger? I know, that there's a possibility in the OE->Items but with a simple line of code?

 

[neo_sluf]

This is weird. It didn't happen in my map. I didn't even know Computer player sell items.

How about trigger it so that whenever they sell items create that item for them again.

 

[Dr Super Good]

Do they buy anything from the unit shop? It could be they sell the item for gold due to a lack of resources.

 

[pred1980]

No, the hero buys 1x Heal Potions (3xStack) and 1x Mana Potions (2x Stack) and one other item in the Item Shop. Than he moves a long the way and near the shop where you can buy units he moves directly to the it and sell ONLY the first slot with the Heal Potions (1x 3Stack).

 

[pred1980]

addendum:

Over the time, the hero sell all items in the inventory when he cross this unit shop. I really dont know why

 

[Warseeker]

I don't know if this gonna work but what if :

Events - A unit sells an item

You can store that sold item within a variable then

Actions - Create " SoldItem" and give it to "The unit that sell that item"

 

[WaterKnight]

CPU players have a couple of behavioral traits you might not want. You may want to change the controller. For your specific problem, as said, there are options to disable the selling.

native SetItemPawnable takes item i, boolean flag returns nothing

 

[pred1980]

I tested it but it doesnt work

I found an old thread and Vexorian said it seems to be not possible to avoid selling items. Just a workaround is to give dropped item back.

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Best Reg

 

[blancfaye7]

Try experimenting more. There is a Priority there. It could be the cause. There are a lot of hidden things we don't know about AI traits, but experimenting around other stats would be great.

 

[WaterKnight]

Disabling pawning does not work? Can you provide a test map?

 

[pred1980]

You can Download the latest map (development state) by click on "Source Code" in my signature. Than start map by adding a computer slot for the the first "orc player slot". Than you'll see the Tauren Chief buying Items at the shops, move to the teleporter and than he sell the heal potions on the next shop. Try yourself.

 

[pred1980]

Did you (Waterknight) or anyone else tried it ?

 

[WaterKnight]

That's not a test map. I do not want to introspect your whole map. The loading time is hefty, the ingame wait time is hefty. I diminished the pick duration and tried to compile it, which may diverge if we do not have the same setup, it did not choose a Tauren Chieftain anymore nor handled the shop. You have the tools and knowledge, so break it apart until the problem is isolated and easy and fast to invoke.

edit: I can at least tell that when the item was rendered unpawnable as advised above, it cannot any longer sell the item to the shop but still tries and drops it in front of the shop. I guess you did not test changing the player controller.