Anyone working on AI for standard SE V?

[Q]

Although I of course use the excellent balance mod with the improved AI, I would like to know if anybody is working on the AI for standard SE V (as the TDM mod for SE IV).

[Captain Kwok]

There was a player over at se5.com that was working on AIs for stock, but has sort of disappeared. There's another guy, Fallen Haven, doing AI work but it's also for a mod.

[Slick]

I asked some of the TDM guys and they aren't.


Maybe if they got some encouragement???

[Q]

If I look at the AI files I understand the reluctance!
For me these files are very hard to understand. Just for instance how do you chance the AI design creation?

[Suicide Junkie]

Aaron is the only one I know of.

[Ironmanbc]

Q said:
If I look at the AI files I understand the reluctance!
For me these files are very hard to understand. Just for instance how do you chan g e the AI design creation?

But I thought you were Q

[President_Elect_Shang]

I haven't even started yet. The AI is farther down on my list.

[Q]

Ironmanbc said:

But I thought you were Q

I am used to snip my fingers to get what I want and not to modify some text files!

On a more serious side it is very bad that the AI design creation is so complex, as it is just terrible in standard SE V: I wiped out a fleet from a well developped AI empire with 7 light cruisers and high level anti proton beams because they didn't have combat sensors and ECM (although they had researched it to a high level). My 3 destroyers didn't take any damage at all!

[Mephisto]

What is so discouraging is the fact that the AI is so lacking in some functions and its overall design. To get a real nice AI you have to start all over again from my POV. For example: Why do AI ships only ever get one order per turn? Because the scripts don't check if a ship has movement points left (and those could to something) but if it has an order already. Instead of moving to a planet, pick up cargo, move it to the next, go back, pick up more and move on because you have enough movement points the AI will do this step by step turn by turn and therefore in slow motion compared to a human player. You can fix this but it's a lot of work. Maybe I will start modding again but I'm yet undecided.

[Raapys]

I think the major AI improvements should be done by Aaron, now that most of the bugs are getting worked out. That way we'd actually have some AI script files where modders would just have to put in their tech tree and components and then have a usable AI to go with their mod.