Enhancement of Intelligence for Non-player Ships

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  • #18791
    IronDuke
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    Couldn’t see no edit button, so I’m making a reply instead.
    WOW I forgot how much harder Pog is than Unity’s C#! It will take somewhat longer than I though to make the mod. Should be done by the end of the day unless chores bite me in the butt. Plenty of time for you all to notice. πŸ™‚

    –IronDuke

    P.S. There is something inherently exciting about seeing all the functions in the Pog scripting SDK; kinda makes me feel like diving into modding for weeks on end. :S


    I-War 2 Discord: https://discord.gg/RWaabWB
    Very little about the game is not known to me. Any questions you got, throw them at me. πŸ™‚

    #18793
    IronDuke
    Participant

    Ok, the mod is made and working exactly as intended. πŸ˜€ It’s almost my bedtime though, so I’ll comment the code and tidy up the dirty bits tomorrow, as well as upload it.
    First mod I’ve ever completed, woot! πŸ˜€

    –IronDuke


    I-War 2 Discord: https://discord.gg/RWaabWB
    Very little about the game is not known to me. Any questions you got, throw them at me. πŸ™‚

    #18795
    Chessking
    Participant

    Wow, that’s great!


    This is one tough navy, boy. They don’t give you time off, even for being dead. -Clay

    Storm Petrel

    #18798
    IronDuke
    Participant

    Alrighty, I’m done.
    I’m attaching it because I can’t seem to find an upload button in the downloads area…
    Enjoy everyone! :mrgreen:

    –IronDuke

    Attachments:

    I-War 2 Discord: https://discord.gg/RWaabWB
    Very little about the game is not known to me. Any questions you got, throw them at me. πŸ™‚

    #18800
    Chessking
    Participant

    Thanks! I’ll see when I can try it out. If you need anything else to do, I thought of something I think would add to the game. There is a strange absence of Heavy Corvettes in Instant Action. Adding these in would raise the bar to a more realistic level, especially when flying the Heavy Corvette.


    This is one tough navy, boy. They don’t give you time off, even for being dead. -Clay

    Storm Petrel

    #18804
    IronDuke
    Participant

    I noticed that as well; they have a hardcoded list of ships to use, which doesn’t include very many of those in the game. But I posted a little surprise just now. πŸ™‚ I think that’ll answer you well.

    –IronDuke


    I-War 2 Discord: https://discord.gg/RWaabWB
    Very little about the game is not known to me. Any questions you got, throw them at me. πŸ™‚

    #18823
    Chessking
    Participant

    What? My chickens do not support your mod? I had better have a talk with them.

    I now remember looking into the script system of I-war a little bit, and I found that I cannot open .pkg files correctly. I little insight into this would be helpful.

    Never mind, I downloaded the scripting SDK and found these are the compiled code files.


    This is one tough navy, boy. They don’t give you time off, even for being dead. -Clay

    Storm Petrel

    #18827
    admin
    Keymaster

    [quote=”IronDuke” post=20122]Yes, I know, it’s a stupid title. But I wanted to have the lousiest acronym I could, and EINS seems to work fine for that. Bet Schmatzler will like it…[/quote]

    Ziss iss ekzacktly what I want, jawohl! B)

    I added the mod to the downloads list πŸ™‚ I doubt I’ll ever use it seriously, I’m already getting my arse kicked heavily with the AI at 80%. :dry:


    Space. The final frontier.

    #18830
    7upMan
    Participant

    I added the mod to the downloads list πŸ™‚ I doubt I’ll ever use it seriously, I’m already getting my arse kicked heavily with the AI at 80%. :dry:

    About that, I wanted to ask: Does the mod apply for the normal game or just for the skirmish stuff? Meaning, will the missions get harder?

    #18832
    IronDuke
    Participant

    If you are in space, the mod is on, and AI ships exist within 400km, then it applies to them. So yes, normal game, instant action, even scenarios if the mod is on. πŸ™‚

    –IronDuke


    I-War 2 Discord: https://discord.gg/RWaabWB
    Very little about the game is not known to me. Any questions you got, throw them at me. πŸ™‚

    #18836
    7upMan
    Participant

    Is the AI change actually perceivable? Do the fights get harder?

    #18840
    IronDuke
    Participant

    It depends on the observer. In my case, I didn’t notice it as being more taxing on my skill, but it did take longer to kill them and I took more damage from them. At one point I stupidly stopped my Petrel right in front of a patcom for one second and almost died. :mrgreen: Another point it took almost a full minute to kill a Marauder even with twin neutrons simply because he was so good a dodging.

    –IronDuke


    I-War 2 Discord: https://discord.gg/RWaabWB
    Very little about the game is not known to me. Any questions you got, throw them at me. πŸ™‚

    #18851
    7upMan
    Participant

    Well then, I’ll be sure to try it out then! πŸ™‚

    #18868
    AdmiralZeratul
    Participant

    Do the AI enhancements also affect Az’s and Lori’s combat performance?


    Overthinking is kind of a habit of mine.

    #18873
    IronDuke
    Participant

    [quote=”AdmiralZeratul” post=20164]Do the AI enhancements also affect Az’s and Lori’s combat performance?[/quote]
    I don’t know if they have their AI set below max, but if so, then yes. The thing is, all ships have an AI mindset thingy applied when they are created. Military, coward, bold, etc. I think there’s a special one that only the T-fighters get. Basically these mindsets govern reaction times, what maneuvers are performed, how the ship reacts to things like superior foes, all that jazz. Because the T-fighters seem to ahve a different flight style than your average ship, I get the suspicion that they have a custom mindset.
    I never detach them because lazy and they get killed, so I’m not entirely sure whether they have their AI preset at the default 80%. If they do though, they definitely are improved by the mod.

    Now you’ve sparked my interest in having them fly detached. B)

    TLDR: Very probably.

    –IronDuke


    I-War 2 Discord: https://discord.gg/RWaabWB
    Very little about the game is not known to me. Any questions you got, throw them at me. πŸ™‚

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