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Sorry if it has been already mentioned but I found out that AI competition is constructing a big number of factories with 3-4 lines of production without any attempt of upgrading the existing ones. I don't know if there will be a second stage of upgrades but I think that an AI adjustment is necessary. Having 12-16 factories each competitor (1917) is not very...logical. I also achieved my first take over and I found out that all branches are of very low quality which probably affects their sales remarkably. The factories and branches were property of four different marques.
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It has been noticed by me, however the next round of AI optimizations are not until around v1.25. As work on the AI takes a good amount of time and I tend to get a lot of people bugging me for updates (or leaving bad reviews) if I take that time to do AI optimizations. (Specially since it's not something you see, unless you look very hard.)
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07-29-2016, 05:24 AM
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I understand...looking at the AI.xml I saw a skill section which looks like you can adjust the competitiveness of the AI companies in different sections (in other words a solution to the problem I described), is this true, could these values be a solution to what I described (e.g increase "manufacturing" will they start upgrading or will they start creating even more factories)? If I change these values will they have any impact on the game or do they exist for the moment thinking on a future implementation? If they are already functional the range is from 1-100? Thank you.
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Sorry for the late reply,
(07-29-2016, 05:24 AM)mistreated Wrote: I understand...looking at the AI.xml I saw a skill section which looks like you can adjust the competitiveness of the AI companies in different sections (in other words a solution to the problem I described), is this true, could these values be a solution to what I described (e.g increase "manufacturing" will they start upgrading or will they start creating even more factories)? If I change these values will they have any impact on the game or do they exist for the moment thinking on a future implementation? If they are already functional the range is from 1-100? Thank you.
In some respects these values are implemented, in others they're not quite as strong as they should be. You are correct they run between 1-100 in most cases. In v1.22 we'll be implementing both mod tools and a wiki describing what each of these variables do.
I don't believe altering these will fix the issues you're seeing with the AI. As I believe updating is currently disabled with the AI. They just build out. Small when they're small companies and in early game years, and much larger in later game years.
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