For Backers Only: AI building stuff

nice^^

I never thought I'd see the day where I fear a non-cheating AI

I haven't been able to play the game for a long time. But from what I have been seeing here, AWESOME work Sorian. I just can't wait to get a my butt kicked when the game and AI is completed. lol

Keep it up!

Has anyone else noticed that sometimes the AI doesn't build anything, or only builds a few buildings and then stops. No factories, no bombers, nothing? I posted a bug about it on the tracker, although it is probably already a known problem, but I searched the tracker and couldn't see a bug posted.

Quite a few times now, I've played games against three different AI opponents, haven't been attacked once, and when i scouted out the AI, they were all just standing idle.

Possibly to do with pathing, like if the commander gets himself stuck due to terrain or boxing himself in?

Link to the bug I created on the tracker.
http://pa.lennardf1989.com/Tracker/index.php?do=details&task_id=1967&order=history&sort=desc

I see, must be one of those then! Thanks for your reply, can't wait to see how the AI progresses

I just played another game against 3 AI opponents, exactly the same thing happened. Took some more screenshots too. Each AI was in an open area, so I can't see how it would be the nav issue. It just seems odd to me that this never happens when I play against just one AI opponent. I'm most curious!

Same thing here. After the previous build I had this for the first time and needed to reinstall the game, because in every AI game it was the same.
After reinstall it was ok again. Now with the new build I seem to have that issue again. I need to test more though as I just did two games yet.

EDIT: next game was fine. Will have to see how often this happens

It has happened for me a few more times, need to upload new screenshots to the bug tracker. I'm assuming it is to with the first item in Sorian's bullet list though - the commander is getting stuck under something it is trying to build (assuming you can't see that building though?).

I had my AI get stuck with a single AI opponent on a metal planet. The commander built a single pgen and then never moved again.

Very nice. The progress so far is great to see. Can't wait to see what the next build brings us.

Cool. Looks like it's coming along

Build my minions, BUILD.

I'm wondering if you have to start new game to test changes or if you can change the AI behavior while the server is running.

I think you should notice that it's not only about AI, but mostly for everything on client, but some changes result in crash.

PS: Don't you want to add assets auto reloading to Linux build?

would it be possible to add an AI editor in which the player spawns into a sandbox mode with a premade map that has most terrain features. the player could then set up defenses around this terrain according to how a player would set them up, you would save this as a template and the AI would use variations of this in a game.

Thanks for posting the progress pics Sorian, looks good