The Battle for Wesnoth Forums

I guess everyone recruits 2x3 units at startup? I don't really know what other people do, but looking at my most recent replay (from porting to 1.13/1.14) I recruited 3 full keeps (9 units total), expecting that at least some of the last keep will be lost to the woodsmen but will slow those down a ...

denispir: Good to hear that you figured it out. :) I thus also discovered that I was wrong about Grnk's mysterious ability (the spoiler section above) that was evoked somewhere in this thread: Grnk just died ;-). Yeah, he does do that occasionally. Of course, it's your job to try to avoid that. ;-) ...

Hi denispir, Since you say you read most of the thread, you have probably seen that this is not my favorite scenario. It's somewhat more "scripted" (at least the part about stealing the treasure) than I like it to be. But you may have also seen that I want some of the scenarios to be tricky (with an...

Hey, The information you provide isn't really enough to say what is going on. As you suspect yourself, the problem is almost certainly in the code that makes the 'ai' table available, but I don't remember ever experiencing a case where 'ai.check_move()' is available and 'ai.move()' is not, so I have...

Hi denispir, No problem posting here, as far as I am concerned. This thread or opening your own thread would also be possible, but this is very similar to some of the ideas implemented in Fred, so this is perfectly appropriate. As for your comment concerning a dedicated AI forum, you could write the...

so what if he would try to [store_unit] and change the cost to 1 gold or 0 gold and then [unstore_unit]..? i mean i guess its irrelevant now since he found a fix :) just curious.. well.. well done :) Nyanyanyan said in the original post that he tried to set the gold to 1 and that it did not make a ...

I did some trial and error and found out that the reason for this behaviour was the way I tried making the unit unable to advance. What I did was put the required xp to 0 and the amla to nothing, which did eliminate any xp from the unit, but apparently confuses the ai to no end. Hmm, that's interes...

I worked out most of the kinks, but one problem I still have is that the AI seems to 100% prioritize the unit with this ability. This leads to the AI basically being locked into attacking the ever-respawning unit until it is out of sight. Stat-wise, the unit I gave this ability to is a normal ghost...

Thanks, denispir. :) Based on what you write, you might enjoy checking out the AI we call Fred . It's an attempt to put together an AI with "real" operations and tactics layers that is entirely independent of the default AI. It is incomplete and has a whole bunch of problems and currently only works...

Salut denispir, First of all, good to hear that a combination of the Goto and Wolves MAI will (for the most part) do what you want. If that's not good enough though, the MAIs are all written in Lua, so if a small tweak is needed that is not possible with the standard MAIs, the code can easily be imp...

Yeah, what you write is a good summary of the the options you have with the Wesnoth AI. From what you write it also looks like you understand the limitations of the different approaches, so I'll just make a few additional comments. Another solution, albeit still indirect and contrived, is to use the...

My advice would also be to use a separate side. AI candidate actions are not executed at all for a human controlled side, so the only way to make something like that work would be in some sort of semi-hacky way. You could set up an event that changes the controller to AI at the end of the previous s...

This is now fixed in both 1.14 and master by adding a new option "Keep saved AI" for computer players when reloading a game from the MP Create Game screen. If nothing is selected, this is the default option, which means the game continues with the AI from the save.

Minor progress update: I can reproduce the issue by simply starting an MP game (local or on the server), using any of the default AIs for a side, saving it, and then re-loading from the MP Create Game screen (again, both local and server). After loading, there is an extra stage for the AI sides. Thi...

I had a first look into this. I can replicate the problem even in a local game using your vvvv save. It's very "interesting". Looking into the AI configuration using the in-game inspector, it turns out that there are two AI stages (a stage is, more or less, an entire self-contained AI). The first on...