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Elite AI Wastes Money & Resources on Infrastructure Rather than Building Units

I realize (recently read in the forum - I believe) that the Elite AI is being looked at for "tweaks".

In two Version 1.5 games I have watched the AI immediately spend all the money and resources on building infrastructure as soon as the player leaves the game.

Once I personally experienced it (I missed checking in on time) and the other I read in the newspaper the next day after a person left the game.

You can tell of course by reading that 5 or 8 provinces all received infrastructure upgrades at the same time.

Sure when infrastructure upgrades use to increase resource production, maybe this elite AI programming made a little bit of sense. But now, well it makes the Elite AI look rather um how shall I say it - dumb?

Also the Elite AI air attacks need to be improved. A plane attacks once and then keeps going to the same location rather than moving elsewhere making it a sitting duck to shoot down. It doesn't even know to stop when it has finished the job.

More effective would be to have the AI assess the resource / building / research allocations of the player who quit and then just produce the same units in a sequential pattern (going from foundry to plant to barracks, etc.).

Most likely this would be too complicated to do programming wise, but anything better than infrastructure would be a nice improvement.

Maybe this is just a version 1.5 issue?

wb

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So according to you, it's dumb to build infrastructure to increase your resource production and it's smart to solely focus on spamming troops until you run out of food/oil

Well these are Version 1.5 games and infrastructure provides nothing but a slight morale boost.

No resource production increase whatsoever.

I will go edit the post to make sure that is more clearly stated.

Thank you for pointing that out.

Hmmm - second sentence states it quite clearly. No need to edit.

I did clarify the 5th sentence a little bit.

So maybe it is only a Version 1.5 situation.

AI should be reprogrammed instead to buy the next level of IC in urban areas or in the provinces where resources are available.

Maybe I should post this in the Version 1.5 thread so as not be confused with regular posts?

Not sure if I can can delete this thread?

Maybe a moderator can?

wb

AI wasted resources on no resource provinces. That's the problem.

Certainly the AI will have to be adjusted for the 1.5 balancing. As the 1.5 is only going to be events for a while I am not sure if it can be a separate AI routine for 1.5 games or not

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