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Feature #699473
Aimless AI units (e.g., civ2civ3_earth "Storm")
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Description
civ2civ3_earth has a "Storm" unit which haunts Deep Ocean and can attack Ocean; it is unreachable and has very high attack/defence.
At the moment, it moves with purpose like any other AI unit; so piles of storms can tend to hang out near populated areas, converge on ships etc.
I think it would be better if they wandered around their territory aimlessly, blundering into ships by accident (or maybe attacking ships they find themselves next to). Possible ways to trigger this from the ruleset:- As an AI side effect of vision=0? (but this might be a lot of work to make work)
- Flag "Aimless" or "Blind" affecting only AI behaviour?
History
#1
Updated by Jacob Nevins almost 5 years ago
In particular, I'm worried that it may be possible to "farm" civ2civ3_earth's Storms, and use them to defend your strategic locations.
#2
Updated by David Fernandez (bard) almost 5 years ago
Jacob Nevins wrote:
In particular, I'm worried that it may be possible to "farm" civ2civ3_earth's Storms, and use them to defend your strategic locations.
I agree. It is a flaw of "storm" units that I did not think of.
I did notice that AI behaviour was not really suitable for this kind of units (natural forces), because as you say, if a ship is in vision range of one storm, other storms will come to try to attack the ship too.
My first versions of the ruleset included land storms (on mountains and deserts) that I had to discard for same reasons.
I remember to test vision=0, hopping that they would move/attack randomly, until I saw that they remained immobile. However, I find more intuitive your suggestion of a "Blind" flag.
If you implement such aimless AI, I certainly would use it, and not only for storms, but also for other animals that do not use to chase their preys.
#3
Updated by Marko Lindqvist 11 months ago
- File 0039-Add-RandomMovement-unit-type-flag.patch 0039-Add-RandomMovement-unit-type-flag.patch added
- Category set to General
- Status changed from New to Resolved
- Sprint/Milestone set to 3.2.0
Attached patch adds "RandomMovement" unit type flag that makes unit to make random movement in the beginning of the owner's phase. Owner can never control units movement.
When unit moves to a random direction, it first tries to do ACTION_ATTACK, and if that fails, it will try ACTION_UNIT_MOVE, ACTION_UNIT_MOVE2, and ACTION_UNIT_MOVE3. No other actions are currently supported, but will be easy to add when we learn what actions we would need to support.
#4
Updated by Marko Lindqvist 10 months ago
- Status changed from Resolved to Closed
- Assignee set to Marko Lindqvist
#5
Updated by David Fernandez (bard) 10 months ago
Marko Lindqvist wrote:
Attached patch adds "RandomMovement" unit type flag that makes unit to make random movement in the beginning of the owner's phase. Owner can never control units movement.
When unit moves to a random direction, it first tries to do ACTION_ATTACK, and if that fails, it will try ACTION_UNIT_MOVE, ACTION_UNIT_MOVE2, and ACTION_UNIT_MOVE3. No other actions are currently supported, but will be easy to add when we learn what actions we would need to support.
Thank you for this. Sounds good. I plan to use it in my ruleset.
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