In 1.04 my goal was to "fix" the AI.
The AI has always had a few issues: the turns would take too long, the AI went out of business to quickly, and it was just plain weak.
If I made the AI stronger, the turns took longer. If I sped up the turns, the AI would be too week. It's an endless attempt to balance a seesaw.
Each tweak to the AI require stress testing. Which means the computer will play a zero human game to 1950. I then go over the data and tweak some more and start right over. Sometimes this takes 15 minutes, sometimes 3 hours... It's a long boring process.
I finally have the strength of the AI to the point I want it to be, but the turns still take longer than I want them to.
So, I will be delaying 1.04 for a few weeks as I implement part of the new features I planned to do in 1.06 (Updated Factory System). This should help speed up a few bottle necks the AI has when building cars and shipping them. Hopefully!
Sorry for the delay,
Discuss this here: http://www.ventdev.com/forums/showthread.php?tid=446
The AI has always had a few issues: the turns would take too long, the AI went out of business to quickly, and it was just plain weak.
If I made the AI stronger, the turns took longer. If I sped up the turns, the AI would be too week. It's an endless attempt to balance a seesaw.
Each tweak to the AI require stress testing. Which means the computer will play a zero human game to 1950. I then go over the data and tweak some more and start right over. Sometimes this takes 15 minutes, sometimes 3 hours... It's a long boring process.
I finally have the strength of the AI to the point I want it to be, but the turns still take longer than I want them to.
So, I will be delaying 1.04 for a few weeks as I implement part of the new features I planned to do in 1.06 (Updated Factory System). This should help speed up a few bottle necks the AI has when building cars and shipping them. Hopefully!
Sorry for the delay,
Discuss this here: http://www.ventdev.com/forums/showthread.php?tid=446
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good human beings save the world, so that bastards like me can keep creating art, become immortal.
if you read this after I am dead it means I made it." ― Charles Bukowski