Map editing for AI path-finding problems.

[nikolai1962]

By the way Nikolai, you might want to check out my stripped-down map to test this more systematically.
You can create all kinds of setups there quite easily

Yeah, i d/l ed it precisely for that reason. Trouble is i'm a bit obsessed with semi-fixing the vanilla map so i can actually play the game without getting frustrated seeing all the AI armies standing around not doing anything. I'm planning on just getting the vanilla map semi-working then using your thing to make a new test map to figure out the rest.

[SigniferOne]

Excellent post Nikolai, will be very interesting to put it to use. Have you consulted a very similar study of pathing in RTW? They started along very much the same lines as you did, and I think they got further along in RTW. Considering that both games have almost exactly the same maps, the results should be comparable between the two studies.

[Lusted]

Nikolai did the ai pathfinding thing for RTW i believe.

[nikolai1962]

Have you consulted a very similar study of pathing in RTW?

Yeah, Lusted is correct. I started looking at this for RTW but got sick of trying to guess what makes it work, or rather not work. Had to try again for MTW2 as it had the same problems of AI armies standing around lost all over the place. The guidelines above solve at best maybe 20% of the problems though so i'm still missing big pieces of the puzzle.

[SigniferOne]

Are you using the autoplay switch, to play through the first X turns automatically? I was pretty positive it's been transfered over from RTW, but so far haven't seen people mention it.

[alpaca]

No, the system has changed. You need to play hotseat and switch control of the last control faction to the ai, that basically has the same effect.

[SigniferOne]

Ah yes, here it is I found it: How to jump to a future year

There's far too much wisdom interspersed all throughout the ORG (and some at TWC), with no one place to go look for it. But it's there :)