How to make it so the AI selects a certain upgrade?

Jump back to quoted post30 Sep 2021, 15:15 PMSneakEye

Welcome to the forum!

The AI seems to unlock upgrades which add slot items or certain modifiers regularly. They somehow evaluate the value based on the actions inside. I once had an upgrade that changed the weapon which they did not unlock, but after changing that to add weapon they did buy it. It depends on your upgrade if this is possible.

Another way to increase the value is in ai_economy and in army.
ai_economy has a list 'upgrades' for entity and squad upgrades, there is a separate list 'player_upgrades' for global upgrades. Set the utility to 1000 to give a high priority.

In army there is the 'unlocking_upgrade_list' list for player/global upgrades. The combination with 'unlocked_building' can encourage the AI to unlock it. For example, I use the hq entity for several upgrades which seems to have a high priority, while the bunker entity does nothing. This is try on error.

I put important tech upgrades in all possible locations and they now use them perfectly. However, I am still not sure which location has the most effect.

Jump back to quoted post30 Sep 2021, 19:15 PMI II II I_

So seeing the comments about slot item additions and all this makes me wonder if I somehow have my configuration set in a way that makes it so that the AI isn't actually using the override I set for it. I've got the upgrade utility set to 1,000 and the AI still isn't willing to get it, so I'm starting to think that there's some other issue at play here. If you wouldn't mind, could you either like write a step-by-step basic list of how to properly setup AI economy settings/overrides or link me to a post that has some details on how to do this?

Jump back to quoted post30 Sep 2021, 20:07 PMSneakEye

This is an example of an emtpy upgrade with 'player' as owner, located in each HQ. The AI always buys it. (Context: it is invisible for players so with this upgrade I can determine if a player is cpu or human).

ai_economy


army

Jump back to quoted post30 Sep 2021, 20:58 PMI II II I_

Yeah I've done this stuff for the squad upgrades (Utility set to 1,000) and the AI still doesn't get the upgrade. I'm pretty sure I just have configured something incorrectly with the AI economy, though what exactly that might be is unknown. Whatever it is, I assume it has something to do with the ai_economy_override not being set up properly.

Jump back to quoted post1 Oct 2021, 04:50 AMSneakEye

The ai_economy\overrides are only working for specific singleplayer missions. You have to use "ai_economy\complete\default". I tried once to edit the ai_personality to link them to different economies, but that wouldn't work.

Jump back to quoted post1 Oct 2021, 04:50 AMSneakEye

The ai_economy\overrides are only working for specific singleplayer missions. You have to use "ai_economy\complete\default". I tried once to edit the ai_personality to link them to different economies, but that wouldn't work.

Jump back to quoted post1 Oct 2021, 10:40 AMI II II I_

Ah, I was working under a false impression I got from another thread that seemed to imply that I had to create an economy override to get the AI to use the modded stuff. Now that I've set the economy to use the complete setting instead of override... the AI still doesn't get the initial upgrade, but if they own a pre-upgraded squad they will automatically get the secondary upgrade. I guess I'll just have to experiment with this some more, but I think I'm on the right track now. Thanks!