AI doesn't play on my map

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Franky666
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AI doesn't play on my map

Post by Franky666 »

Hello,

I have problems to bring the AI player on my map to work properly:

He (playing the GDI) doesn't play at all. He does only following:
- places his construction yard
- build two power plants
- build one or two tiberium refineries
- build a cyborg factory
- build a gun tower
- build a few cyborgs
- moves the cyborgs before the entry of the tiberium refinery so the harvester can't enter it. The harvesters did their job only once and then stuck in the army of cyborgs.
- he WAITS(!) until I discover his base with a big army of tanks and shoot away the cyborgs so the harversters can continue doing their job.
- Now, he continues building (while it is way too easy to defeat him)

I made a map for OpenRA (the tiberian dawn variant) as following:

I've built a big "creep" base in the center of the map. It has a load of tanks, defence towers and so on. You need a lot of tanks to destroy it.

The landscape surrounding it is divided into 3 parts (one for each player).

The only way to enter the enemy area for battle is the center, where the creep base is.

There is an additional unreachable area where the power plants of the creep base are.

Each of the three corners has following:

A very tiny area of tiberium near the spawn point.

Another large area of tiberium far awy.

A small creep gun tower or a small creep tank here and there.

But: A smaller creep base with many tanks is between the spawn and the larger area of tiberium, so you need to defeat that base first to reach it.

The AI player never attempted to fight against something on that map.

Why he doesn't play? :-(

abcdefg30
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Re: AI doesn't play on my map

Post by abcdefg30 »

Do you have the map uploaded somewhere?

It sounds like the AI is trying to attack something which cannot be reached. You can try enabling the "Bot Debug Messages" (Settings > Advanced) to see what is going on.

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