Darth's AI

[Ludens]

Would the 8.5 darth formations work with RTW 1.3 and BI 1.4??

IIRC I got them to work with 1.3, and I suppose they should also work with 1.4, but why bother? I don't see any reason to prefer 1.3/1.4 over 1.5/1.6, and if you have those you might as well use Darth Formations 16.0.

[Arciel]

Hmm..yeah I suppose so... but while I'm waiting for my new dsl connection, I'm stuck with just the 1.3 version of RTW. I won't be able to patch up anytime soon. BTW, how did you make them work, and where do they appear in the battlefield ui?

[Ludens]

BTW, how did you make them work, and where do they appear in the battlefield ui?

By simply installing them. You won't see any change to the game, it is just that the formations the computer uses are different.

[Arciel]

All right then thanks. It's a bummer though that a human can't use them...

[Tellos Athenaios]

Humans? I thought they'd deploy their troops themselves rather than having their CPU doing it for them...

Anyway, you can, of course, deploy your troops pretty much to whatever you like, and, as long as you don't muck about with custom formations and don't disrupt them yourself, these formations will remain quite intact too.

(Provided that they aren't eaten alive, but hey: then the human did something all wrong.)

[Djurre]

Seriously, this is a very popular modification. I dont understand why EB does not try the best it can to implement some of these AI enhancements to its own mod. Afterall, you guys try to achieve realism, and effective use of formation by the AI beats the financial aid we give them, in terms of realism.

[eadingas]

Seriously, this is a very popular modification. I dont understand why EB does not try the best it can to implement some of these AI enhancements to its own mod.

Why would you say that?
Did any of the DarthMod fans actually tested it against what we have in EB? Because we have, and we can tell you for certain - it's not THAT good as everyone's talking about.
Do you think we're not doing our best? Do you think we can't think of AI improvements on our own? Or that, if we see something is useful and better what we have, we don't do something about it? Do you really have so little faith in the team?
The only new thing we got from Darth so far are the new unit flags discoveries, and even they provide only slight improvement over what we already had.
Contrary to some mods, EB is not a compilation of things done by others, and we strive for it to remain so, unless something strikes us as a really useful upgrade. Darth Mod is not one of these things.