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January 5th, 2007, 04:35 PM
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Is AI ever forging items?
I've played several games and have never seen AI commanders carrying any items, other than gems. Does AI ever create any magic items for their heroes?
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January 5th, 2007, 05:08 PM
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Re: Is AI ever forging items?
I think that forging is very low on the list.
To forge and assign items intelligently is very difficult. We finally got an extensive "thinking" routine for the AI casting spells, and one for building castles, and I think abit of recruiting decisions.
Of course its hard to tell if it happens at all since random events can give the AI items to assign also.
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January 5th, 2007, 05:12 PM
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Re: Is AI ever forging items?
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I've played several games and have never seen AI commanders carrying any items, other than gems. Does AI ever create any magic items for their heroes?
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I've seen the AI opponents place items on their commanders/mages... usually the most powerful ones receive the items. Also it usually happens during long games on very large maps. If you're playing several games with small maps then obviously items on AI will rarely appear.
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January 5th, 2007, 05:17 PM
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Re: Is AI ever forging items?
Thanks for the answers.
>We finally got an extensive "thinking" routine for the AI casting spells
Does it mean AI makes suggestions ("scripts") what their mages cast, or you are talking about general spellcasting AI?
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January 5th, 2007, 06:00 PM
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Re: Is AI ever forging items?
The AI players. Well our mages too I guess. I can see in the logs the thinking routine and its quite lengthy.
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January 6th, 2007, 11:56 AM
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Re: Is AI ever forging items?
Today I saw 2 AI commanders, each carrying 4 magic items.
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January 6th, 2007, 12:54 PM
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Re: Is AI ever forging items?
Neat! What were they, and what were they carrying?
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January 6th, 2007, 01:39 PM
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Re: Is AI ever forging items?
One was a troll and some of his items said, that "they belonged to him".  The other one was a mage.
I played another short game and engaged 5 commanders, carrying about 10 items. From what i can remember, there were bracers, giving protections, ring called Precious, weapons, staves and armor. |
January 6th, 2007, 02:36 PM
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Re: Is AI ever forging items?
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One was a troll and some of his items said, that "they belonged to him". The other one was a mage.
I played another short game and engaged 5 commanders, carrying about 10 items. From what i can remember, there were bracers, giving protections, ring called Precious, weapons, staves and armor.
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Sounds like Bogus and his men... those are independents not AI opponents.
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January 6th, 2007, 02:46 PM
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Re: Is AI ever forging items?
.. and their equipment is pre-set (hardcoded) by the devs ..
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