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Originally Posted by thejeff
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Originally Posted by AreaOfEffect
If it is something a player is allowed to do, then it is valid for the AI to do it as well and is not a bug. Can a player equip a bow and script the unit to charge into melee? Yes. Is that a bug? No. Just remember that the AI is just suppose to simulate the actions of a player. Its not a bug if that player isn't especially bright, or decides to play the game in ways you yourself would not.
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So you wouldn't consider it a bug for the AI to just do nothing? Sit in the starting castle and never recruit, research or try to expand. After all, a human player would be allowed to do that. Or maybe it could destroy it's own starting castle, lab & temple. Why not? A human player could.
The AI has enough trouble competing. It's worth pointing out especially egregious examples. Call it a design flaw rather than a bug, if you want. It's still an error of some kind. |
The only way to fix that is to alter the AI decision trees and related algorithms to take this case into account. The real question is whether doing so will introduce more complications that make it more trouble than its worth to fix than leaving it as it is currently. Many of these more obscure issues are that way, even ones that are real bugs, such as the one cleveland reported by PM.
And believe me when I say you people don't want to get hit with the Stick of Unintended Consequences on stuff like this. With one of the recent patches, a batch of problems that had been around for a long while were fixed, but they produced a side effect that was a much greater headache and had to be fixed separately before the patch was released. If that patch had gone out in its initial form,
it would have stopped every MP game in progress in its tracks and ruined many of them.
So if it's something as
trivial as this particular scripting issue, think VERY hard before turning a molehill to a real hill. You might just get a Precision 100 Gifts from Heaven as a complimentary bonus if it's tackled.