modding AI unit/building construction

[Seven.the.Hun]

ok so i was wondering how the AI goes about doing this, and how would u mod it? what file to look in and what not...

i used that reveal map cheat thing, gave all factions a huge starting treasury, and increased the income of every province, i even added buildings so many places would be more technological from the start, and i went through to see if all the factions do a good job in constructing stuff, but not all provinces and factions do at all...some focus on the region advantage stuff, especially naval ones, and they dont work with much else...
i'm guessing many of you mod authors with finished mod downloads have come across this issue here and there...
http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/confused.gif hmm, even the fact that the AI never initiates a siege battle is kinda bothersome for me...
just wondering if anyone knew where to start when modding the AI construction habits...
i mean a halfway valueable province that hasnt been conquered a billion times shouldnt be sitting with a mere keep after a century, since the costs should not have been a factor...???
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[the Black Prince]

in the unit prod and build prod files there is a column that sets out building priority for different AI types.

if you adjust those figures, then the AI of different types, i.e catholic expantionist (HRE) will concentrate more on those buildings.

you can also get more AI responce by changing a factions AI type in startpos file.

changing byzantine from orthodox stagnant to orthodox expantionist completely changed the character of the eastern game, wirth the result the byz always came out on top of the muslim factions, and were a strong block against the horde...

the downside was of course, if playing a western faction, i would end up confronting either a very strong byz or horde faction....
battle of the giants...

[Seven.the.Hun]

yes, altering behaviour changes things, and adding region advantage stuff does too...i'll have to try a hand at changing that building string stuff to see if it does the trick, muchthanx

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