DyDo skirmish AI: ver 2.1.1 (21 Apr 2010)

[DylanDog]

Compromise it in a way that it will be looking for a research and if it does not finds it, it will get stuck or it will try other researches if the one looking for is not available?

It should look for a random one

[DylanDog]

I have now added on the DyDo website the DyDo 1.2.5 for download. I stop developing the AI for now to concentrate on bug fix only. Please test the 1.2.5 and let me know of any bug. If no bugs appear then I will release this as stable and will work again to improve the AI (looking also at the suggestions I gathered from you!)

There are two packages of this mod available for download:

1.2.5 (a) - This is the standard package, the AI personalities are chosen randomly at the beginning of the game (70% probability General 1 and 30% probability for General 2-3-4)

1.2.5 (b) - In this package the personalities are fixed:

• o Players 0 & 1 = General 1 (Standard AI)
• o Players 2 & 3 = General 2 (VTOL AI)
• o Players 4 & 5 = General 3 (Turtle AI)
• o Players 6 & 7 = General 4 (Cyborg AI)

You can also communicate with DyDo (see how).

See the Changelog

Report a bug

have fun!

[Berg]

Is there a way to force AI to use different generals?

[DylanDog]

Is there a way to force AI to use different generals?

yes: look here

[Berg]

That works.
Now i have control of your AI i will rule the world...just a joke.
I read that they were set to different tactics and i will try air wars, cyborg wars etc.
This should be fun

[Weltking]

оборона полностью отсутствует, играть не интересно т.к. уничтожить базу не составляет особого труда.

[KukY]

оборона полностью отсутствует, играть не интересно т.к. уничтожить базу не составляет особого труда.

defense is completely absent, play is not interesting because destroy the base is not difficult.

Every AI should build much more defenses.

[DylanDog]

Every AI should build much more defenses.

Such comments are useless, too generic.

- which version of Dydo have you been playing?
- against which personalities?
- on which map? which Tier?
- any error on the stderr.txt or warzone2100.RPT files?

A good way of showing DyDo weaknesses is to save the game every 10 min, put the savegames together in a rar or zip file and upload them here together with a short explanation of the tactic you have used to beat it.

This allows me almost to "play your game" and improve DyDo working on its weaknesses.

[zydonk]

Hello DylanDog: playing the latest version of your mod (125a) and I find there is a tendency for WZ to fail to write the .es file for a savegame. WZ crashes to the desktop at the same time. This usually happens after about 45 minutes of play. This problem has affected every map, WZ and custom, that I have tried to play.

There is also the problem where the mod loads all AI players as General 0 (zero), so that all of them remain inactive. I find this happening with 8 player custom maps especially.

[DylanDog]

All

A new versio of DyDo is available for download. I have made many important changes and added some noew features.

There are two packages of this mod available for download:

* DyDo 1.2.6 (a) – In this package the personalities are fixed and set all equal to General 1

* DyDo 1.2.6 (b) -This is the standard package, the AI personalities are chosen randomly at the beginning of the game (70% probability General 1 and 30% probability for General 2-3-4)

See the Changelog

I have made many important changes on this version, see the changelog!! Now DyDo really is stronger then before. Try a 4 players game all vs. all with DyDo-1.2.6a on Arctic-T1 and Castle-T1…and let me know!!

Most important changes: Now Dydo checks if trucks are stucked and try to fix this. Few players commented that it was easy to take a DyDo base using long range indirect weapons...now DyDo knows how to deal in such cases. Dydo stops truck moving to an oilRes already taken by someone else. Undefended Derricks are taken into account as possible priority target. Droid attack ranges ares related to the weapon type (flames and MGs is short, rockets is long and so on).

Enjoy it and happy new years eve!!!

[NoQ]

1.2.6b has some strange problem on 2.3 beta7 (wasn't here on beta6) ("Oh by the way here's the ticket"(c) -- #1405)

[DylanDog]

1.2.6b has some strange problem on 2.3 beta7 (wasn't here on beta6) ("Oh by the way here's the ticket"(c) -- #1405)

unless the game is not crashing the problem reported in the ticket is a minor one (not affecting the AI):

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error   |09:30:42: [scrAddStructure] scrAddStructure: tile already occupied by structure
error   |09:30:42: [scrAddStructure] Assert in Warzone: scriptfuncs.c:1920 (0), last script event: 'N/A'

At the start of the game, DyDo (and BecomePrey too) places sensor turrets all around the map to reveal oil resources to itself. During theis event, it seems that DyDo tries to place a sensor turret in a tile already occupied by another structure. In Windows the game is not crashing when such error is generated, just ignore it.

[chron]

I have now added on the DyDo website the DyDo 1.2.5 for download. I stop developing the AI for now to concentrate on bug fix only. Please test the 1.2.5 and let me know of any bug. If no bugs appear then I will release this as stable and will work again to improve the AI (looking also at the suggestions I gathered from you!)

There are two packages of this mod available for download:

1.2.5 (a) - This is the standard package, the AI personalities are chosen randomly at the beginning of the game (70% probability General 1 and 30% probability for General 2-3-4)

1.2.5 (b) - In this package the personalities are fixed:

• o Players 0 & 1 = General 1 (Standard AI)
• o Players 2 & 3 = General 2 (VTOL AI)
• o Players 4 & 5 = General 3 (Turtle AI)
• o Players 6 & 7 = General 4 (Cyborg AI)

You can also communicate with DyDo (see how).

See the Changelog

Report a bug

have fun!

your screwed.
viewtopic.php?f=35&t=4459

[Zarel]

Yep, he's sure screwed; it'll be even easier to set different AI slots to different personalities. How horrible!

[DylanDog]

yes I am screwed, I was not aware of this change...but possibly this is not an issue.

Release 1.2.7 has fixed a mistake I made in the script. This mistake was avoiding the droids belonging to the defend team to really defend within the "base defend range": the droids were defending only if an enemy was near to them. This behavior is not correct as the defending team has to move to defend an attacked droid/struct if they are in the "base defend range". This is now fixed.

Another small change in 1.2.7...also related to the 2 posts just before this one , during the first 2 minutes of the game you can set personalities via the console using the commands listed below:

"/set dydo gen1": All DyDo AIs are set to General 1 (Standard)
"/set dydo gen2": All DyDo AIs are set to General 2 (VTOl AI)
"/set dydo gen3": All DyDo AIs are set to General 3 (Turtle AI)
"/set dydo gen4": All DyDo AIs are set to General 4 (Cyborg AI)
"/set dydo random": All DyDo AIs are set randomly (mainly General 1)