tuggyne's WML questions

[tuggyne]

Edit: changed thread title accordingly

I've been trying to pass AI parameters to MP sides that can be either human or AI-controlled, but my approaches so far haven't worked reliably.
The first was something like this:

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        [ai]
            village_value=0.25
            aggression=0.1
            caution=1.0
            grouping=defensive
            recruitment_pattern="fighter,fighter,archer,mixed fighter"
            villages_per_scout=0.0
        [/ai]

But checking on it after the AI had had a turn or two using :debug and :inspect showed that the AI parameters were usually left at their defaults (although oddly it did work once in a while, I think?).
Then I tried the modify_ai tag:

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        [ai]
            [modify_ai]
                {AI_SIMPLE_ALWAYS_ASPECT village_value "0.25"}
                {AI_SIMPLE_ALWAYS_ASPECT aggression "0.1"}
                {AI_SIMPLE_ALWAYS_ASPECT caution "1.0"}
                {AI_SIMPLE_ALWAYS_ASPECT grouping "defensive"}
                {AI_SIMPLE_ALWAYS_ASPECT recruitment_pattern "fighter,fighter,archer,mixed fighter"}
                {AI_SIMPLE_ALWAYS_ASPECT villages_per_scout "0.0"}
            [/modify_ai]
        [/ai]

At first that seemed to fix it, but just now I was playtesting again and none of the AI sides had gotten their parameters at all .

Finally, I tried the event approach:

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    [event]
        name=start
        [modify_ai]
            [filter_side]
                side=1
            [/filter_side]
            {AI_SIMPLE_ALWAYS_ASPECT village_value "0.25"}
            {AI_SIMPLE_ALWAYS_ASPECT aggression "0.1"}
            {AI_SIMPLE_ALWAYS_ASPECT caution "1.0"}
            {AI_SIMPLE_ALWAYS_ASPECT grouping "defensive"}
            {AI_SIMPLE_ALWAYS_ASPECT recruitment_pattern "fighter,fighter,archer,mixed fighter"}
            {AI_SIMPLE_ALWAYS_ASPECT villages_per_scout "0.0"}
        [/modify_ai]
    [/event]

Not even that worked, so now I am quite baffled. (And rather shocked, too, since I'd assumed that if nothing else, I could at least fall back on the verbiage of event to take care of me.)

(The event was verified as firing by sticking a message in it.)

I tried searching for previous posts about this, but gave up when I realized that the forum search software filters out the term "ai" and splits tag names on underscores...

[Pentarctagon]

If you think you will be frequently posting with problems, then titling it "tuggyne's WML questions" would be a good title so you could ask all of the questions here instead of making a lot of separate threads.

[tuggyne]

Comparing this to another MP scenario I made with functioning AI parameters, I wonder if the problem is simply that [side]s with allow_player=yes ignore any AI parameters they're passed -- which would, to say the least, be somewhat suboptimal!