Slitherine

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ORIGINAL: huda0816

I had a really enjoyable game against the AI. Now it is October 1942 and the AI started to send unescorted invasions towards New Zealand where a small cruiser-taskforce is sinking them one after another.

The other problem for the AI is it's tendency to send small taskforces to Pearl Harbor where they are slaughtered by divebombers. I even reloaded turns to let the crippled taskforces escape.

So my question is, if there are any triggers which will stop the AI from suicidal behavior such as taking specific bases?

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ORIGINAL: RangerJoe

It is not the version that is the problem. When you did the updated scenarios, you had to remove the old AI scripts.

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ORIGINAL: HansBolter

Players need to learn that they are NOT OBLIGATED to trash and destroy the AIs forces when it makes stupid moves.

While the AI may not be able to stop sending surface combat TFs to Pearl, the player is most certainly capable of standing down the dive bombers at Pearl.

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ORIGINAL: Andy Mac

Do you have files aei02-01.dat
aei02-02.dat
aei02-03.dat
aei02-03.dat
aei02-03.dat
etc etc

If yes then the AI randomlly picks 1 AI script out of the main scenario 1 and 16 variants

You MUST DELETE all the aei02-xx.dat files or there is only a 1/17 chance of playing the current AI

The problem is prior to release everyone was saying the old WITP AI was too boring so for the release version and about a year after the AI was supercharged to be recklessly aggressive and it had massive number of variants - it worked for about 3 months then players figured it out and started usign small SCTF to cream the Ai - also a number of variants the AI simply didnt have the assets ina scen1 or 2 game to use effectively

So I re wrote it to make it a littel slower and to better cover its invasions - it is still bad at it dont get me wrong AI is weaker than a player would be in providing good cover for Amphibs but it got better at it in later versions and I removed most of the options as it was to hard to maintain 17 versions of scripts

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ORIGINAL: HansBolter

Players need to learn that they are NOT OBLIGATED to trash and destroy the AIs forces when it makes stupid moves.

While the AI may not be able to stop sending surface combat TFs to Pearl, the player is most certainly capable of standing down the dive bombers at Pearl.

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ORIGINAL: huda0816

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ORIGINAL: Andy Mac

Do you have files aei02-01.dat
aei02-02.dat
aei02-03.dat
aei02-03.dat
aei02-03.dat
etc etc

If yes then the AI randomlly picks 1 AI script out of the main scenario 1 and 16 variants

You MUST DELETE all the aei02-xx.dat files or there is only a 1/17 chance of playing the current AI

The problem is prior to release everyone was saying the old WITP AI was too boring so for the release version and about a year after the AI was supercharged to be recklessly aggressive and it had massive number of variants - it worked for about 3 months then players figured it out and started usign small SCTF to cream the Ai - also a number of variants the AI simply didnt have the assets ina scen1 or 2 game to use effectively

So I re wrote it to make it a littel slower and to better cover its invasions - it is still bad at it dont get me wrong AI is weaker than a player would be in providing good cover for Amphibs but it got better at it in later versions and I removed most of the options as it was to hard to maintain 17 versions of scripts

That is the problem. I did not delete the variants.

I am not sure if I should start over now. Will the AI stop doing overly aggressive things and switch to a defensive stance at some date?

And my last question: Which scenario do you recommend if I want to play as Japan against the AI?

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ORIGINAL: Andy Mac

Personally as a player who understands mechanics and wants a historical game more or less I would play scen 10

Its not as immersive breaking as Scen 21 and 22 but it allows the AI some redundancy to take the inevitable losses

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