suggestion for another ai

Hi there,

recently I had the idea for an "eco AI".

This could be a stripped down version of the battle ai's like only capturing mexes and building energy buidlings and gridding everything together.

and with raising metal slightly fortifying the mexes with some turrets.

This ai could be used for testing or stenghtening ai's eco or it could be added to the human team in coop games :D

o/
forti

Hi,

I have an suggestion for additional behavior of the mentioned idea for an AI.

I would call this "ecoAI" and it*s inital purpuse is to add it to a human team and it focus mainly on building metal and energy infrastructure.

Also it would be a great assistance for human player if you are on big maps and you just cleared an areal of enemy forces it can jump in and build eco infrastructure there while lightly securing it with some defenses also this AI should only produce some armed units to defend from raiders.

If there is a plane or gunship factory in enemy use also put up some aa to be most efficient and not wasting resources.

How could this be established? Who can implement such an option?

o/
forti

Just copy a casual player profile.

great to hear!
When will it be available? :D

o/
forti

oh nooo ;)

come on guys, it sounded so easy :)

o/
forti

if i know how to do it... it sounds like a nice starter project but idk how any of this works :(

I've actually already made this AI but it's in Lua so needs to be pushed into the base game to work.

Would you be ok with that GoogleFrog?

Lua AI is good. They're quite maintainable.

katastrophe CAI is just the gadget ai_cai.lua, and some stuff in the aiInfo in root. Lua AIs barely exist in many senses. They are just an entry that tells the lobby that they exist, and fully general gadgets that handle stuff when the AI exists. CAI is just a check that there is an AI on a team called CAI, and then a gadget giving a bunch of commands to that team.

Don't copy the code though. It's terrible. Just look at how to set up a lua AI.