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Reply to Crusade AI issue: AI not building mining starbase at all - repost in Galactic Civilizations III Stardock Forums

[quote who="zuPloed" reply="2" id="3680216"] looked through the AIStrategyDefs.xml, the AI puts a very low priority on constructors before turn 75, regardless what kind of strategy it is pursuing. I allways encounter a lot of slyne constructors early on, but those are probably from the pragmatic trait. [/quote] Very good point. Low priority compounded with some remaining unsettled planets probably caused it. Given that Crusade emphasize resource mana

Crusade AI issue: AI not building mining starbase at all - repost in Galactic Civilizations III Stardock Forums

I posted this one in the wrong forum earlier . Just want to be bring the discussion here Not sure what causes this behavior, but at Turn 71, the top power (a God-like AI) in the game only has 1 mining starbase, and is severely lacking mining resources. All other AIs are all god-like It has 10 free administrators to use, and plenty

Reply to Galactic Civilization III:Crusade v2.21 (Released 6/1) in Galactic Civilizations III Stardock Forums

I tried this release on a small map yesterday. Some thoughts Adjacency upgrades to early-game wonders + Galactic Mainframe speed up things a lot. (Thanks!!) Deep core mine upgrade + all manufacturing adjacency also makes things faster (Thanks!) Changes to cities . (Pop

Reply to Race Type - Carbon Based vs Aquatic? in Galactic Civilizations III Stardock Forums

Brindles Observatory is very powerful. I always rush it if possible. - it gives a new Pop10 planet --> 3.3 raw production instantaneously + the new planet immediately contribute to my ship production - its 3+ research adjacency is a lot for early game, when placed next to the computer core. Popula

AI issue: AI not building mining starbase at all in Galactic Civilizations Series Stardock Forums

Not sure what causes this behavior, but at Turn 71, the top power (a God-like AI) in the game only has 1 mining starbase, and is severely lacking mining resources. It has 10 free administrators to use, and plenty un-mined resources in its zone of control. Turn 1 and Turn 71 save files can be found here: http://gofile.me/28Hjp/wuEPygs6J http://gofile.me/28Hjp/e3ZRqI5Ta </

Expansionist strategy for God-like AIs in Galactic Civilizations Series Stardock Forums

Tested for 2.2 Galciv3 with Crusade against stock factions . This post is more for people who want to get the steam achievement. Game setup Faction: a couple of strongest races I have found Custom race (example: http://i.imgur.com/EMqOyLG.jpg ) Useful abilities:</st

Reply to AI performance (early game) 1.90 Opt-in in Galactic Civilizations III Stardock Forums

[quote who="Seilore" reply="11" id="3660193"] Quoting Heuristicist, reply 10 2. human player will not use planet governor, which makes the game too micro-intensive. I never use planet governors because I can usually do a better job on my own. Mind you I normally only go to each planet a

Reply to AI performance (early game) 1.90 Opt-in in Galactic Civilizations III Stardock Forums

[quote who="zuPloed" reply="20" id="3660220"] The fun stuff happens, when the AI is done with the list of what it wants to build minus the things it can't build yet. Small secondary systems in a homesystem are almost impossible to get to build farms by modding the Governors + TechGovernors. But I think it is quite salvagable if the syntax in the governor devs can be made to contain conditinal build orders (what I would want to be able to tell the AI is, "if food-population < 1 bui

Reply to AI performance (early game) 1.90 Opt-in in Galactic Civilizations III Stardock Forums

[quote who="Frogboy" reply="18" id="3660209"] I have a lot of thoughts on this as I took a look at how this was coded. Basically, imo, it's backwards. The AI goes into a planet already deciding what it wants to build and then tries to find the right tile for it. If it were me, I would look at the best tiles on the planet and then use that to decide what to build. [/quote] Thank you for looking into this! Yes, the pre-determinatio

Reply to AI performance (early game) 1.90 Opt-in in Galactic Civilizations III Stardock Forums

[quote who="TheFunMachine" reply="12" id="3660198"] I have to agree. If the AI planet governors were to be updated to better build out adjacency as well as improve build orders, it would go a very long way into helping the AI stay competitive mid-late game simply by reducing production inefficiency. I am not much of a min-max kind f person, but even my planets have a layout that trumps my AI companions. Although, to be fair as well, they're a lot better than they were at launch -- th

Reply to AI performance (early game) 1.90 Opt-in in Galactic Civilizations III Stardock Forums

[quote who="zuPloed" reply="13" id="3660199"] If you think about it, it is really not that bad. The AI will most likely place a social matrix or a slave pit on the waterfalls and really only loses on taken and one given adjacency. That's hardly worth mentioning. 1) And later it will possibly replace that one factory adjacent to the research lab or the research lab itself with a social matrix or slave pit. What bothers me more in this example, that the AI hasn'

Reply to AI performance (early game) 1.90 Opt-in in Galactic Civilizations III Stardock Forums

[quote who="zuPloed" reply="14" id="3660203"] Also, on the topic of homeworld development, the two major issues I see are: 1) It puts 2.5 pop into each colonizer. Your homeworld is the world which can make the most use of pop due to fastest build of improvements. It should leave those people at home unless pop capped or heavily heavily unhappy. 1b) Sorry for bitching, but this is the problem with having the same population "slider" (you ca make it default to one value

Reply to The real "suicidal" difficulty level - game pacing very slow in Galactic Civilizations III Stardock Forums

With "very slow" game pacing, planet colonization has only two benefits: 1. Denial of access from competing factions 2. Ideological points It really forces everyone to play a tall game. Other thoughts: "very fast" game pacing blunt significantly the handicaps AI receives.

The real "suicidal" difficulty level - game pacing very slow in Galactic Civilizations III Stardock Forums

There used to be a suicidal difficulty level in the game, which marigolden has taunted about a year ago. This level has been since removed/renamed a few updates back. However, with the nerfing of colony capital (a change I like very much), game pacing (very slow) + god like difficulty level + Iconian is the real challenge. Here is what you get after colonizing a planet with 2.5 pop. 42 turns to build the first factory. <img src="http://i.imgur.com/yYs4vKS.p

Reply to AI performance (early game) 1.90 Opt-in in Galactic Civilizations III Stardock Forums

[quote who="zuPloed" reply="6" id="3660172"] After that we can talk about adjacencies and optimized final builds. After that we can talk about learning algorithms to determine good ship layouts. But to be honest, I still would put my eggs in another basket first. Strat resource improvements (indirect minor buff by coercion and colony capital production changes). [/quote] This point made by ZuPloed is important, because AI will under-produce and under-tech with respect to hum

Reply to AI performance (early game) 1.90 Opt-in in Galactic Civilizations III Stardock Forums

[quote who="zuPloed" reply="6" id="3660172"] The way the AI uses adjacency is it looks for the nicest spot for normal improvements and for hub improvemnts (e.g. power plants) it looks for a place with a lot of adjacend tiles first and then picks the one with the highest bonus. More or less, I guess it is slightly more refined, but this describes well most of the things I have observed. It does also replace normal improvements with hub improvements in good spots btw. [/quote]

Reply to AI performance (early game) 1.90 Opt-in in Galactic Civilizations III Stardock Forums

Agreed that ideally at higher difficulty levels, the AI will take into account the adjacency. Improving this area of the game will also significantly reduce micro-management in the game, because human player can rely on planetary governors more. [quote who="Seilore" reply="3" id="3660163"] I agree I've noticed that they do not use adjacency very well at all. It's like they need to place each type of building first prior to looking at adjacency. H

Reply to AI performance (early game) 1.90 Opt-in in Galactic Civilizations III Stardock Forums

Other related/better ideas for improvement ZuPloed: https://forums.stardock.com/480826/get;3659986 https://forums.galciv3.com/478855/page/2/

Reply to AI performance (early game) 1.90 Opt-in in Galactic Civilizations III Stardock Forums

Clarification: my goal of this post is to brainstorm potential ways to improve the AI governor. We don't need to solve a NP-complete problem that gives absolute optimal placement. A non-optimal algo that improves AI by 2-3x in efficiency will go a long way. I don't know how hard is it to implement the look-up table I mentioned above in the actual source code. Just some food for thought.

Reply to GalCiv III v1.9 Changelog in GalCiv III Dev Journals Stardock Forums

[quote who="zuPloed" reply="58" id="3659986"] Could we get confirmation, that this is being looked at? Like soon? It would really put my mind at ease to see, that you are actually reaching for the low hanging fruit. [/quote] I sent two PMs to you regarding this.

Reply to GalCiv III v1.9 Changelog in GalCiv III Dev Journals Stardock Forums

[quote who="zuPloed" reply="58" id="3659986"] Quoting Heuristicist, reply 56 One area that AI may need a lot of love is the build-order. The AI is building tons of low-yield buildings with return-on-investment 10x lower than the alternative. In 39 turns, I was able to beat the AI by more than 10x in planet production. </di

Reply to GalCiv III v1.9 continued updates in GalCiv III Dev Journals Stardock Forums

Thank you Brad for the balance update on the cultural and diplomatic mechanics. Look forward to the admin resources.

Reply to GalCiv III v1.9 Changelog in GalCiv III Dev Journals Stardock Forums

Bravo for the return of Brad!! The changes and AI improvements in v1.90 are very positive. The nerfing of colony capital is great because it allows tall strategy to be viable, for example, for Yor. One area that AI may need a lot of love is the build-order. The AI is building tons of low-yield buildings with return-on-investment 10x lower than the alternative. In 39 turns, I was able to beat the AI by more than 10x in planet production. AI Manu: 10; Research 22.1; Income

AI performance (early game) 1.90 Opt-in in Galactic Civilizations III Stardock Forums

TL;DR : I ran an early game comparison (39 turns) in 1.90, and found AI still lags human player significantly (6-10x) in manufacturing or/and research at Genius difficulty. Technically, it is difficult for AI to minmax, but a (hopefully) simple return-on-investment look-up table for build orders should improve AI performance by 2x-3x. And it will greatly benefit AI performance in mid and late gam

Reply to GalCiv III v1.9 Changelog in GalCiv III Dev Journals Stardock Forums

Brad has suggested earlier that an administration resource will be introduced to limit the # of starbases for each faction.