Goldmine and AI

[Mechanical Man]

How does AI detect a structure as a golmine aka a building where you send workers to get resources? My question is what object data fields of goldmine unit I can change that the AI will still recognize it as resource structure. For example, if I change pathing map, AI will no longer send units in.

 

[Crus]

If I'm not wrong, you should add the "Gold mine ability" to the resource structure. That should classify it as a gold mine since even the minimap icon will switch to the golden simbol .

 

[Mechanical Man]

Nope, that is not enough.

 

[Crus]

Mmh... I guess you can edit the original Gold Mine or Haunted Gold Mine: they are the only resource structures you can edit in the AI editor. However, if you need to keep them untouched... I don't know then .

 

[Mechanical Man]

Edit in AI editor? You mean in building tab? I can select only None or Haunted goldmine there.

 

[Crus]

Yes, I meant that... I didn't remember the "none" .
Still, if you edit the original Gold Mine it should be recognised as a resource structure (I did it some time ago and, if I remember well, it worked fine); however, if you need to keep the original Gold Mine, try editing the Haunted one... I don't know if it will work, but that's the best I can suggest you .

 

[Mechanical Man]

No is not that I need to keep original goldmine, I can make a new unit based on it anyway.

However I made removed all building placing requirements (where you can build), so now it can be placed also in areas with rocks (unbuildable tiles). You know the problem is that the goldmine pathing map is huge and it has trouble to fit in tight areas. Maybe replacing the original pathingmap with a custom one would work, dunno.

 

[Crus]

Yes, it should work. I replaced the pathing map with a smaller one and the gold mine could be placed almost everywhere .

 

[Mechanical Man]

But if you add a computer controller player near, will it go in the golmine mining gold?

 

[Crus]

I guess so: if the AI workers are not blocked by something else they should be able to mine gold... I haven't tested it though .