AI spell casting priorities

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If you can't be bothered to script it you shouldn't benefit? That's a weird thing to say. For one thing, who would ever benefit from arrow fend being cast unscripted? Only the AI would have air mages of sufficient skill kicking about with handfuls of gems and no script and most of the time it would still be a bad choice of spell.

Also, why the hostility towards people who don't script? I can't be arsed with the micro hassle of it most of the time. I script when I want certain powerful spells cast or have a definite battlemage script assigned to a number, but that's about it.


I personally think all spells which require gems (other than blood spells) should be 'script only'. The only problem there is the AI nations obviously wouldn't cast any combat spells requiring gems, which is a pretty big problem I admit.

It would definitely be good if any spells which are likely to either be a waste of gems/time or harmful to your own side (like berserk causing spells) were either really low priority or script only. Niche spells like ones only useful to thugs (shields, breath of winter etc), ones which summon neutral creatures (lammashtas, horrors etc) and so on should all be low priority or script only. That way unscripted mages would be more likely to cast something generally useful.