- human player will now use pathfinder settings from config (as before)
- nullkiller AI will now use its own, modified settings
- added option to configure NKAI usage of monolith to config
- fixed pathfinder costs not updating on receiving levelup
AI now has better (but not perfect) system for scoring artifacts.
All artifacts now have their base score, based on bonuses provided by
the artifact. For composite artifacts, AI will also consider bonuses
from its components.
When exploring, AI will now weight artifacts as min(base score, price /
5), meaning even artifacts that AI can't score will still have some
priority, if only to sell them or deny them to enemy
AI will now also consider what to equip when trading with heroes or on
the end of AI pass. When considering what to equip, hero will use base
score of an artifact, adjusted by how relevant particular bonus /
artifact for a hero. Some examples:
- Morale-bonusing artifacts have their score reduced based on percentage
of undeads in the army, all the way to 0 for undead-only troops
- Artifacts that give spells (books, hat) will have score reduced based
on how many of these spells are already known by hero
- Land movement artifacts have zero score while on water and vice versa
- Necromancy artifacts will have zero score if hero does not have
necromancy
- Archery artifacts are scaled by amount of ranged troops, and only used
if hero has archery skill
AI may still equip 'bad' artifact, however this should only happen if
hero has no other artifacts to equip into said slot.
TODO's for future PR's (although not sure if / when I will work on
these):
- avoid equipping duplicates of the same artifact. Most notably with
scrolls, but may happen with other misc artifacts or rings.
- consideration for various spell-immunity neclaces
- consideration for birectional artifacts, like Shackles of War, or some
Spheres - since these artifacts need consideration on what our expected
enemy is to correctly estimate whether
- equipping artifacts based on immediate need - for example, equipping
recovery artifacts before end of day, equipping legion pieces only in
town on day 7, preparing for strong / weak enemies (or even preparing
for specific enemy in advance)
- transferring resource-generating artifacts and such to scout heroes,
allowing main hero to focus on combat
- ensure that AI can equip combined artifacts even if non-primary slots
are in use - by considering whether score of combined artifact is higher
than score of all used slots
When an enemy is near our city that currently has a hero hiding in it, we don't buy a hero without army as that one would be forced to wait outside and likely be killed.
Fixed a rare case in which a town-defender could become an indirect part of a troop-delivery-task by doing a sub-task like capturing a shipyard that takes less than 1 turn but leaves him out in the open.
It was happening when all slots were full but no unit even needed disbanding because the unit to be bought is part of the units that are inside of the existing slots.
(This commit contains excessive debugging but I don't want to remove it just yet incase another issue pops up.)
The score for buying army now scales with the cost of that army.
The cost of the units that need to be disbanded in order to hire the new units is subtracted from the army-hiring-score so the AI will prefer hiring armies where the amount of troops to disband is low or non-existent.
Fixed a bug that also disbanded troops when there still were free slots available.
When the AI cannot buy units in a city because all slots are blocked and the units in the slot are cheaper than the units it wants to buy, the AI will now get rid of the units that block that slot in order to be able to buy the better units.
Fixed that armyInvolvement was only filled in when the action involved a target to interact with rather than just a tile.
Since armyInvolvement was used for scoring actions such as retreating towards the closest town, this caused the AI to never retreat to their towns when they were supposed to.
These can happen when an enemy spawns ontop of an AI-hero. If the action would win, it wouldn't be executed anyways. So now AI does the next best thing instead, which likely what it wanted to do anyways.
AI will no longer skip turns with heroes that are waiting for a delivery that takes more than one turn. Instead they will do something until their delivery is close enough to get it at the same turn.
Fixed an issue where a bunch of heroes all tried to do the same tasks:
Tasks that involve no fighting will now always be performed by the closest eligible hero while all other heroes look for something else to do.
