What would cause this?

[Kam]

The AI will sometimes do this with workers and towers. What would cause it? I am away from home, so I can't upload the wai files unless someone has a ai-wai converter.

 

[M0RT]

Don't the villagers have some Chaos ability (or they being replaced by trigger)? That would cause the AI to spend all theit money or training more villagers, which are "removed", so they try to train it again...

 

[Kam]

Neither of those is the case I'm afraid.

 

[Kam]

Sorry to res such an old thread, but this is still a problem.

I believe I've found the cause. I have the AI triggered to upgrade from the standard watch tower to the tower you see in the screens. My thinking is that since it's a different unit id in the object editor, the AI's build que then thinks it needs to build another watch tower - thus being thrown into an infinite loop.

Is there any way to make the AI build que recognize the heavy tower as the watch tower?

 

[manstie]

Maybe just changing the stats of the units that the AI usually build. It should work. If there is anything custom for computers to build, they wont build it, you need triggers to make them build custom things.

 

[M0RT]

Try "Techtree - dependency equivalents"

 

[Kam]

That causes the game to crash.

 

[Ham Ham]

Too many Peasants - You are using more villagers to be built than the AI orders to harvest. Just check if the amount of peasants trained is equivalent to the Gold and Lumber Harvesters you have put (its some windows upside the building/training thing that tells how much peons you want harvesting gold, and how much harvesting wood)

Too Many Towers - On the object data, check the AI placement Radius field. Just increase it.


Try it and tell me if worked.

 

[Mechanical Man]

One option is to make a condition that he doesn't build a tower if the upgraded tower exists. Btw, is race set to custom?

 

[Kam]

Set to custom how?

 

[Ham Ham]

On the first AI page theres a field called "Race". You can choose betwen Human, Orc, UNdead, Night Elf or Custom.

 

[Kam]

What exactly does that option do, or rather what does it tell the AI editor about the AI?

 

[Ham Ham]

Maybe keeping the custom Ai as human or orc, will make it dont recognize the peasants/peons you built.


About the towers again: I just found a similliar bug somedays ago. Theres a field at the botom of the unit' informations thats called "Unit Equivalences". Find this in your Scout Towers and Put the Guard and Cannon towers on this field. Without this, after the AI finishes an ugrade, it will count that a tower is missing, as if it was "destroyed by enemy attacks". Puting the tower's upgrades on these fields tells the AI that tower wasnt destroyed, its still there, it was just upgraded.

EDIT: Forget what I said above. It just tells AI to replace units, not to do the upgrades.

 

[Mechanical Man]

So this thing about unit equivalences don't work? I tried and it doesn't

 

[Ham Ham]

Yes, Unit Equivalences tells the AI to stop producing that unit, and product a new one. Like in the early versions of my Wc2 map, as you could see, the computer players were able to start producing rangers/berserkers and paladins/ogre mages without problem. That is what Unit Equivalences do.

 

[Kam]

Actually it didn't work on buildings when I tried.