[SERVER] AI Personalities for Skirmish and Multiplayer

Description

This mod works with both Planetary Annihilation and Planetary Annihilation Titans. It introduces a number of new personalities for the vanilla AI based on the Absurd difficulty level. These personalities will work with faction mods such as Legion. Installing the Queller AI will not interfere with this mod.

Installation

This mod can be installed via the in-game Community Mod manager.

Personalities

Aggressive

• More willing to attack.
• Less likely to retreat.

Air

• Focuses almost exclusively on air.

Amphibious

• Mix of land and naval.

Bot

• Focuses almost exclusively on bots.

Cautious

• Requires better odds before attacking.
• More likely to retreat.

Defender

• Prefers non-factory structures.

Economist

• Tries to ensure a smooth running economy.

Fabber

• Uses more basic fabbers.

Fast Tech

• Techs to T2 as quickly as possible.

Foundation

• Uses the Galactic War Foundation boss personality.

Land

• Focuses almost exclusively on land units.

Legonis Machina

• Uses the Galactic War Legonis Machina boss personality.

Low Tech

• Remains at T1 for longer.

Naval

• Focuses more heavily on naval.

Orbital

• Puts more emphasis on an orbital presence.

Random

• Picks a random personality.

Revenants

• Uses the Galactic War Revenants boss personality.

Rush

• Focuses on T1 and bots.
• More likely to attack.
• Less likely to retreat.

Swarm

• Prefers factories over other structures.

Synchronous

• Uses the Galactic War Synchronous boss personality.

Tank

• Focuses almost exclusively on vehicles.

Turtle

• Favours a much higher ratio of fabbers to factories.
• Requires vastly superior numbers before attacking.
• Far more likely to retreat.

FAQ

Q. Can I use these personalities with lower difficulties?
A. No. In game terms all the difficulty levels are in fact personalities. These personalities are modifications of the Absurd personality.

Q. Can I use an AI mod like Queller?
A. Yes, though these personalities will use the vanilla brain rather than Queller. The two mods will not interfere with one another.

Q. Does this replace Queller?
A. No, this is completely separate. It's simply a way for you to better tailor your experience with the vanilla AI. It also works with PA Classic, which Queller does not.

Q. Will this work in multiplayer?
A. Yes.

Q. Does this affect Galactic War?
A. No. Use the Galactic War AI Overhaul mod for that.

Q. How can I provide feedback?
A. Please use this thread.

Incompatible mods

I'm not aware of any.

Changelog

Version 1.8.0 - 2021-04-25

• AIP-Bot and AIP-Tank use less air
• AIP-Turtle is more likely to attack
• Reverted to default opening factory for AIP-Economist, AIP-Fast Tech, AIP-Land, and AIP-Swarm
• Added opening factory requirements to unit type specialised personalities to future proof against Absurd personality changes
• Removed changes to minimum fabber numbers from AIP-Swarm
• AIP-Fast Tech and AIP-Turtle take slightly longer to tech
• Increased orbital focus of AIP-Orbital

Version 1.7.1 - 2021-04-14

• Ensure AIP-Random doesn't pick a personality from any other AI mod

Version 1.7.0 - 2020-10-07

• Added AIP Fabber which likes to use more basic fabbers
• Turtle uses less factories when alone on a planet

Version 1.6.1 - 2020-10-05

• Removed translations for languages where PA includes an official translation

Version 1.6.0 - 2020-10-05

• Added AIP Random which will assign a random personality
• Rush techs earlier

Version 1.5.3 - 2020-07-12

• All AIP- prefixes have had the hyphen removed to resolve a crash issue

Version 1.5.2 - 2020-06-26

• Updated for changes to Absurd personality

Version 1.5.1 - 2020-06-04

• All translations now use the AIP prefix for difficulty levels

Version 1.5.0 - 2020-05-29

• Attempted to make Turtle slightly more viable
• Turtle has a higher focus on non-factory structures
• Fast Tech spends a little more time building a T1 presence before teching
• All personalities given a small requirement for orbital to ensure proper operation on multi-planet systems
• Swarm starts with more fabbers
• Bot and Tank will use some air
• Land more evenly splits between bots and tanks
• Some personalities now have first factory preferences
• Updated pt-BR translation with thanks to CmdrEdem
• Added partial pl-PL translation with thanks to Craeox

Version 1.4.0 - 2020-05-20

• Turtle is more of a turtle
• Split Galactic War into four distinct personalities: Legonis Machina, Foundation, Synchronous, and Revenants
• Added Swarm
• Added Defender
• Added Economist
• Prefixed all personalities with AIP and removed Absurd from the name
• Reduced the total number of fabbers that Turtle will use

Version 1.3.0 - 2020-01-01

• Ensure Absurd Naval opens with air
  • This doesn't always work in 113953 due to a bug which will hopefully be patched at some point
• Absurd Turtle opens with more fabbers
• Fix missing air value for Absurd Bot

Version 1.2.0 - 2019-09-16

• Tidied up personality injection script
• Added Russian (ru) translation with thanks to something more than human

Version 1.1.1 - 2019-01-04

• Put Absurd Galactic War into alphabetical position on the list

Version 1.1.0 - 2019-01-03

• Add Absurd Galactic War personality using settings from Galactic War Absurd difficulty
• Absurd Land favours vehicles over bots in alignment with Absurd's default weightings
• Absurd Low Tech will tech a little faster when alone
• Absurd Cautious is less cautious
• Absurd Aggressive is less aggressive
• Add a small amount of air into Absurd Naval
• Absurd Rush is less aggressive
• Removed Absurd Balanced due to tendency to stop building factories
• Added the default amount of orbital back to Absurd Bot and Tank
• Added some land weightings to Absurd Orbital

Version 1.0.2 - 2018-03-03

• Made an adjustment to ensure land personality settings were respected
• Sorted personality order alphabetically

Version 1.0.1 - 2017-11-17

• Updated for changes to Absurd personality in 108271

Version 1.0 - 2017-04-02

• Absurd Balanced now correctly named
• Added language support:
  • Deutsch (de)
  • English (en-US)
  • Français (fr)
  • Italiano (it)
  • Español (es)
  • Nederlands (nl)
  • Nederlands (België) (nl-BE)
• Better mod description

Version 0.2 - 2017-03-24

The AI Personalities Client is no longer required and should be uninstalled.

• Expanded name to avoid confusion with wondible's mod
• Properly tagged mod to show support for PA classic and Titans
• Dropped unnecessary client mod
• mikeyh updated personality script to account for changes in 99377

Version 0.1 - 2017-03-17

• Implemented 13 personalities

Version 0.2 - 2017-03-24

The AI Personalities Client is no longer required and should be uninstalled.

• Expanded name to avoid confusion with wondible's mod
• Properly tagged mod to show support for PA classic and Titans
• Dropped unnecessary client mod
• mikeyh updated personality script to account for changes in 99377

Version 1.0 - 2017-04-02

• Absurd Balanced now correctly named
• Added language support:
  • Deutsch (de)
  • English (en-US)
  • Français (fr)
  • Italiano (it)
  • Español (es)
  • Nederlands (nl)
  • Nederlands (België) (nl-BE)
• Better mod description

Quitch, what is the difference between this mod and Queller AI?

Queller AI is a total AI replacement, adds AI personalities which utilise a new brain. This mod just adds personalities, but utilises the vanilla brain rather than its own.

Version 1.0.1 - 2017-11-17

• Updated for changes to Absurd personality in 108271

Version 1.0.2 - 2018-03-03

• Made an adjustment to ensure land personality settings were respected
• Sorted personality order alphabetically

Version 1.1.0 - 2019-01-03

Please help translate AI Personalities to your local language.

• Add Absurd Galactic War personality using settings from Galactic War Absurd difficulty
• Absurd Land favours vehicles over bots in alignment with Absurd's default weightings
• Absurd Low Tech will tech a little faster when alone
• Absurd Cautious is less cautious
• Absurd Aggressive is less aggressive
• Add a small amount of air into Absurd Naval
• Absurd Rush is less aggressive
• Removed Absurd Balanced due to tendency to stop building factories
• Added the default amount of orbital back to Absurd Bot and Tank
• Added some land weightings to Absurd Orbital

Version 1.1.1 - 2019-01-04

• Put Absurd Galactic War into alphabetical position on the list

Version 1.2.0 - 2019-09-16

• Tidied up personality injection script
• Added Russian (ru) translation with thanks to something more than human

Version 1.3.0 - 2020-01-01

• Ensure Absurd Naval opens with air
  • This doesn't always work in 113953 due to a bug which will hopefully be patched at some point
• Absurd Turtle opens with more fabbers
• Fix missing air value for Absurd Bot

Version 1.4.0 - 2020-05-20

• Turtle is more of a turtle
• Split Galactic War into four distinct personalities: Legonis Machina, Foundation, Synchronous, and Revenants
• Added Swarm
• Added Defender
• Added Economist
• Prefixed all personalities with AIP and removed Absurd from the name
• Reduced the total number of fabbers that Turtle will use

Version 1.5.0 - 2020-05-29

• Attempted to make Turtle slightly more viable
• Turtle has a higher focus on non-factory structures
• Fast Tech spends a little more time building a T1 presence before teching
• All personalities given a small requirement for orbital to ensure proper operation on multi-planet systems
• Swarm starts with more fabbers
• Bot and Tank will use some air
• Land more evenly splits between bots and tanks
• Some personalities now have first factory preferences
• Updated pt-BR translation with thanks to CmdrEdem
• Added partial pl-PL translation with thanks to Craeox

Version 1.5.1 - 2020-06-04

• All translations now use the AIP prefix for difficulty levels

Version 1.5.2 - 2020-06-26

• Updated for changes to Absurd personality

Version 1.5.3 - 2020-07-12

• All AIP- prefixes have had the hyphen removed to resolve a crash issue

Version 1.6.0 - 2020-10-05

• Added AIP Random which will assign a random personality
• Rush techs earlier

Version 1.6.1 - 2020-10-05

• Removed translations for languages where PA includes an official translation

Version 1.7.0 - 2020-10-07

• Added AIP Fabber which likes to use more basic fabbers
• Turtle uses less factories when alone on a planet