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I'm not seeing this. By default it's off, but you can turn it back on. Can anyone confirm?

http://exodusesports.com/guides/enabling-ai-shared-armies/

Idle sets the AI econ to 0, so I suspect it would do that to your team.

@jorgenpt based on original posts by chargrove (not all of which may be implemented)

https://forums.uberent.com/threads/coming-up-soon-server-mods.59738/

I did not think about that until reading this post... I forgot about shared eco.

@sorian Is there any possibility, that you could teach the AI how to "read" tracers?

Basically, when you see a projectile, "cheat" and look up from which unit that projectile came? I know, "cheating" in that way isn't the cleanest way to do it, but not so much different from what a player does, and saves you the hassle of tracing tracers.

Respectively, is this information even attached to projectiles? I mean the information which unit spawned that projectile?

Right now, the AI will far to often not react properly to orbital threats it doesn't know of, such as unscouted Anchors which are already bombarding the base.

The type of ammo is stored in the <unit name>_ammo.json files and should be available to the AI. Not all units have unique ammo types but it should be possible to make a good guess.

That being said, it might be able to extrapolate information just from stuff being damaged, how much damage is being done per shot, rate of fire, etc. It'll probably be more reliable this way.

More realistic, but also a lot of additional overhead for virtually no additional gains or different outcome. A straight lookup should be much faster, if it is possible.

It's also not only about evaluating the threat level, but mostly for recognizing that there are targets.

a straight lookup based on ammo type is not possible in a lot of cases. For example, Pelters, Shellers and Holkins use the same ammo type.

I think the AI already has some threat generation from incoming fire mechanism, it just doesn't handle it very well atm, its reaction time is really slow.

The main thing that bugs me with Ai is when they build like 5 MEXs, a handful of energy plant, some turrets,and one vehicle factory and then just freeze and look into the sun like, " ok then, I am satisfied with my small yet colorful army and ready to be face death".

Oops, I'm sorry, I suck, I forgot to turn my mods off.

What's this one do?

my guess is it allow you to toggle the AI's commander preservation capabilities, such as they are.

Interesting... now what are design up to that would need that setting?

Galactic War fiddling.

The new grenadiers are great.

However, they still do a death march into turrets since every unit in the game moves redundantly 10% past its maximum range towards the target.

Did you guys intend to fix this for this PTE?

I've seen "connection to server lost" twice over maybe 3 or 4 test games.
In both cases I had a few air fabbers, an air factory, a commander, a radar and the idle AI commander in radar range only as a radar dot. In the 2nd case it happened randomly, I had not touched PA for a minute or two.

I'll try a local server.

"Improves spectator UI - removes unneeded UI elements"

yay! Now I just need to make that 1v1 UI for casting 1v1 games...

Connection to server lost is known as to the cause.. we are trying to get a repro. It's currently live however, so won't be holding up PTE for it.