AI dont make Walls - Enemy Walls - worker wont build walls

[Longinus]

Has anyone seen enemy workers build walls?

Even in Random Games, Hard mode AI is still easy to defeat, even in small spaces.

[Stratego (dev)]

yes does not build walss, where shuld it build it?

my suggestions is to make the AI to build other factory structures like stable, will that be hard enough? (my problem is where ahould AI build them?)

[Longinus]

Yes stables.. for walls, it could be 5 tiles away from the town center or any paths. If its difficult, you could change archer towers to garrison being built around town centers t make things even more challenging and balanced. If its possible, can enemy ai build advancement centers and blacksmiths and use them? And castles too?

[kon]

Oh inappropriately what would the bot was building castles!!! 1020 HP normally, you can carry only with their castles,and then the battle will last. translate through Yandex translator. if there are error-sorry!

[Stratego (dev)]

you could change archer towers to garrison being built around town centers

what do you mean by "to garrison"?

BUT: in v968 the AI will build stables/barracks and so on.
(not walls yet, that is not clear for me yet where should they be placed by workers)

[Longinus]

you could change archer towers to garrison being built around town centers

what do you mean by "to garrison"?

BUT: in v968 the AI will build stables/barracks and so on.
(not walls yet, that is not clear for me yet where should they be placed by workers)

Fortress, I mean, if enemy AI is hard mode... and walls, hmm.. in reality, walls are built around bases so they are placed and in-lined randomly as long as AI buildings are within the walls...

[Stratego (dev)]

here the implementation was to build towers and factories randomly around the base.
but i will leave the topic open for the walls, if you have idea where the AI should build walls then hit me!

[balint]

maybe they build a fort around the TCs.

[Stratego (dev)]

should they?
(because i never build such thing around my TC-s )

[ejm29]

I dont know how the programming work's, but perhaps you could make the computer build walls as choke points. If their is...for instance, a water tile on one side, and a mountain tile on the other?

[patroid]

Hi the problem by walls is that u cant pass them, the AI will block its own paths.

Patroid

[Stratego (dev)]

good idea, but not complete:
- where on the map should the AI look for choke points?
- only 10 tile far from their TC
- or 10% far of the map size XY direction,
- only at homeland
- or on enemy land too? (land = close X tile far from enemy TC-s)

so we dont need here programming, we only need the specification where walls should be built by AI - this is what i do not figured out yet.

[draakjee]

maybe something like this:
-TC in the middle
-first ring, AI will built stables/barracks (next to tc)
-second ring, (next to stables/barracks). Ai will built a wall

some other specifications:
-after 3 or 4 walls, 1 tower needs to be placed, so units can move from the tc through the tower. So the AI won't block itself.
-if 2 tc from AI are less than 8 tiles away from each other, than the walls from those two tc should merge. So you get 1 long wall around those 2 tc. Same for 3 or 4 tc.

i'm only not sure if it's good to let the Ai built walls, walls aren't that good. And you don't need to destroy them to win a game... So maybe you should also reduce the costs of the wall only for AI.

[balint]

This is how I imagined the fort.

Red: Tc
Blue: Favtories around rhe TC
Green: Guard tower
Purple:Wall

[balint]

This is another one....

Sams colouring.

sorry, it is not a nice image...

[Stratego (dev)]

the images i coool! thanks!

- i am only not really sure that the ai workers should work on such big fortresses instead of eg. building more factories, or a catapult or a transport (this is what i do generally).

btw: does anyone build fortresses around their TC-s?
(the building of walls on narrow parts or the map (betw. two hills or something) closing out enemy are more practical - and i also do it in my games.)

[COOLguy]

I build BIG defenses... if I think the game calls for it. There needs to be a test for the AI to build such large works, such as counting spaces to the other tc's. It would be a waste of time for the AI to build a huge defense instead of taking more tc's in the nearby area. Humans know this, but AI has to be told. Maybe make a couple scenarios that AI chooses best from depending on the positions.

More of a problem is their lack of defense against artillery.