I think this topic is in the wrong place.

Hey Zungen, I moved the topic to the AI scripting forum.

Did it work before you added the ally condition? Did you use (players-stance 1 ally) as the condition? I haven't seen this happen before.

For the lumber camp and mining camp stuff, you'll want different rules for wood, gold, and stone. It's possible that you need to add a line (set-strategic-number sn-camp-max-distance 30). You can change the 30 to whatever distance you want. It is the max distance from the town center that the AI will build mining camps and lumber camps. Also, add the line (set-strategic-number sn-cap-civilian-builders 5) to make sure that the cap isn't currently set to 0.

It's also possible that escrow might be delaying building construction. Escrow is when the AI sets aside resources for more expensive items such as techs. You can stop the AI from doing this by adding the line (set-escrow-percentage wood 0) to see if that fixes it. If it does, you should create similar set-escrow-percentage lines for each resource.

[This message has been edited by Leif Ericson (edited 09-18-2019 @ 07:33 AM).]

Yes. I've noticed I posted in the wrong forum, but I realized it too late


I didn't try the script before applying the allied condition, but now that you mention it, I should. What I did test was adding a chat-to-player effect in this rule

(defrule
  (true)
  =>
  (enable-timer 2 900)
  (disable-self))

and it worked, so it may be related to the allied condition

Now, suppose it works testing without allied condition. What should the next step be? I want the allied player to ask for tributes only when both players are allied, because later on he'll change diplomacy.

Suppose it doesn't work without allied condition. What could it be?

About builders, I did add a (set-strategic-number sn-camp-max-distance 30) and tried with different distances and nothing worked. BUT I do have a really low villager builder count, so it may be related, because this guys have to build plenty of buildings. Is it possible to raise priority of a building construction? My best guess is using a elapsed-time condition in the AI, so they build all their camps and mills before barracks and stables.
By the way, do I need to add a build camp/mill command or will the villagers do it on their own?

I'll have to test all these thing the next week, though, so we'll see what happens then and I'll tell you

Edit: I just added
(defrule
(dropsite-min-distance stone/gold/wood > 6)
(can-build mining/lumber-camp)
=>
(build mining/lumber-camp)
)
and the AI started building camps.

Now, regarding the messages, I tried modifying the allied condition and there wasn't anything different.
I also tried to do a workaround: instead of sending chat to player, set-signal and in triggers, if signal set, send message. The result was the same. I'm running out of ideas.


Edit 2: it seems that neither the AI or Trigger Stuido like characters like this: áéíóúàèìòù.I ended up replacing the offending ANSI characters with utf-8 equivalents, using this
https://www.indalcasa.com/programacion/html/tabla-de-codificaciones-de-caracteres-entre-ansi-utf-8-javascript-html/

So that's the solution to the invisible chat or text or whatever issue


Edit 3: the first camp has 0 issues. As soon as the gold near the first camp is gone, the villagers go walking to the next gold/stone patch and DON'T construct a camp. They just mine and go walking to Town Center or previous camp
I have

(set-strategic-number sn-camp-max-distance 300)
(set-strategic-number sn-[i]all-resources[/i]-dropsite-distance 4)
(set-strategic-number sn-maximum-town-size 50)
and 
(defrule
(dropsite-min-distance gold > 6)
(can-build mining-camp)
=>
(build mining-camp)
)

[This message has been edited by Zungen (edited 09-19-2019 @ 02:07 AM).]

The mines they are walking to are over 6 tiles away from the current mining camps and TC, right? Are escrow percentages set to 0? I can do some testing this evening to see what might be going on.

Glad you figured out the chat issue. That makes sense.

Edit:

By the way, if you're scripting an AI for random maps, we have another forum just for AI scripting that you might be interested in: http://forums.aiscripters.com/. We also have a discord group. Those spaces are visited more frequently right now.

[This message has been edited by Leif Ericson (edited 09-19-2019 @ 09:40 AM).]

Yes, I set escrow to zero, so if you'd like to help me, it would be really cool!

The quickest way would be to either post your script here if it's short or attach it in an email. Email is in my profile. I'll try to look at it tomorrow or Saturday. No promises on a Friday night.