Fixing the AI money script (preliminary tests)

**The Errant** · 05-10-2007, 10:11

Originally Posted by Watchman

What, you got something against being the True King Of Britain ?

It reminds me a bit too much of my current location. Limbo. Try to imagine a place of white light, white ground, white sky. There is ground since you don't float but if you try to touch it with your hand you encounter nothing solid. Now add the fact there is nowhere to go and nothing to do. There is no up, down, left, right or anything else for that matter. I'm not even sure if it's air I'm breathing. Or am I breathing?

Don't move. Don't act. Don't think. Just click "End Turn" after "End Turn" and take the occasional screenshot. And then there are those wonderful occasional CTDs. If I could do it in my sleep, I would. Either that or I'll have to "loan" a monkey from the zoo to do it for me. Hmm.
*Goes off in direction of the zoo*

**Watchman** · 05-10-2007, 12:14

Ah. Burnout.

**bovi** · 05-10-2007, 16:27

Errant, I'm not sure if you know this already, but you can get the AI to play completely without your intervention. Add a -ai switch to your command line and they'll go to work all by themselves. If you want to stop them to take a look around you can run the console command halt_ai and resume with run_ai. I may have remembered the actual commands wrong but the functions are there. Sure alleviates the boredom of clicking every 3 minutes. Also be sure to use the -ne switch so it's windowed and you can do other stuff on the computer while waiting.

Downside is, apparently you can never gain control of any faction once you've started the game with the ai switch, it'll be written to the savegame. Also, the faction you choose at game start will be unaffected by all bonuses due to the FactionIsLocal condition, I suggest choosing Casse as they have little effect on anyone else.

**Foot** · 05-11-2007, 02:37

Originally Posted by bovi

Errant, I'm not sure if you know this already, but you can get the AI to play completely without your intervention. Add a -ai switch to your command line and they'll go to work all by themselves. If you want to stop them to take a look around you can run the console command halt_ai and resume with run_ai. I may have remembered the actual commands wrong but the functions are there. Sure alleviates the boredom of clicking every 3 minutes. Also be sure to use the -ne switch so it's windowed and you can do other stuff on the computer while waiting.

Downside is, apparently you can never gain control of any faction once you've started the game with the ai switch, it'll be written to the savegame. Also, the faction you choose at game start will be unaffected by all bonuses due to the FactionIsLocal condition, I suggest choosing Casse as they have little effect on anyone else.

Unfortunately you will need to transplant the EBBS (modified or not) into the campaign_script.txt, as in the -ai game you cannot start the EBBS script. I'm not entirely sure how you do this, but my guess would be to copy all the bits inbetween the start and end script lines into the campaign_script at the end of the file (before the end script line) as is. But very good for churning off test games. Be wary of ctds though. It cannot save, so you'll need to be checking on things all the while, just in case it ends unexpectedly.

Foot