Forcing the A.I to field more challenging armies

**magnum** · 12-29-2006, 15:47

Has anyone messed with unit regeneration (export_desc_buildings.txt) to see what effect that would have? In my attempts to get more balanced AI armies, I tried the cost method but the problems seemed to be that to get the AI to build a more balanced army you had to raise the cost of ranged units to the point that no one would build any of them. So I've dropped their cost/support to double the defaul. The last night I took the time of modding the building file to decrease the regen rate. I guess I'll find out the effect eventually, was just wondering if someone else had already done it and if so what effect they experienced.

**Cos3** · 12-29-2006, 20:07

Modding the regen rate is a good idea. Let us know if that works well.

**Olmsted** · 12-30-2006, 16:09

I have done this by starting most cities out with more buildings. Each castle on the map starts out with a basic barracks, stables and bowyer. I have also lowered the regeneration rate for most low level barracks and the size of the recruitment pool. This has worked very well so far.

**nameless** · 12-30-2006, 18:58

What about reducing the regen rate for higher tier units? Would that get the AI to favour more of those units?

**Olmsted** · 01-09-2007, 06:24

Originally Posted by nameless

What about reducing the regen rate for higher tier units? Would that get the AI to favour more of those units?

No. Raising the regeneration rate would mean that the AI had more of them available to hire, which should make the AI hire more of them. The AI usually tries to build the best units it can within the bounds of whatever proportions it is supposed to follow.