Make an AI that expands aggressively?

[Verdun]

I have been looking around for a bit especially regarding threads and tutorials, but I didn't really find anything for this specific question -

how would you get a computer player to make expanding and building new bases the MAIN priority?

My idea was to create maps where the objective is not so much to destroy the enemy but annex more territory than they do.

 

[Cheshire]

AFAIK you can just set the priorities to that with the AI editor.

Edit:

you do this in the "attacking" tab. there in the box in the bottom right corner, you set target priorities. just have "new expansion location" be the top priority. and delete priorities you don't want the AI to have.

 

[Verdun]

AFAIK you can just set the priorities to that with the AI editor.

Edit:

you do this in the "attacking" tab. there in the box in the bottom right corner, you set target priorities. just have "new expansion location" be the top priority. and delete priorities you don't want the AI to have.

thanks! I suspected this but I was wondering if since it is in "attacking" the AI would also inevitably build a base there or if it just destroys the creeps and the base-building part is determined by something else; I mean if it's really that simple, all the better

 

[Cheshire]

no, you are right. you also have to have building an expansion be in the build order in the building tab. If it doesn't have an expansion on the build list, I'm pretty sure it will indeed just clear the expansion and not build there.

I just answered about the attacking priorities because that was the focus of your question.