Events and AI

[Kossatx]

Hi people and Robotron, where is defined in which turn an avent can be played by the AI and the probabilities the AI really choose it?

[Robotron]

This is very complicated to explain in detail. Is this a general question or do you have a specific problem?

[Kossatx]

I was thinking about modify the game number of turns... and I don't know how to adapt events to this variation

[Robotron]

Changing number of turns:

Open 1914.lua

at the top you will find

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scenario.turnLimit = 60

Try changing that.

Also look at

function(setturndate)

This function controls how much time passes with each turn (in PotzBlitz: 2 weeks per turn in 1914, 4 weeks from 1915-18)

If you want to return to the original time per turn you can replace the function with the original one. This will restore 2 weeks per turn after turn 5:

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function SetTurnDate()
  if game.turn > 5 then
    game.date:AdvanceWeeks(2)
  end
end

Modifying events to match new number of turns:

Search the events.lua and diplomacy.lua scripts for occurrences of

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game.turn

which is the number of the game turn

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game.date.month

which is the number of the current month (1 to 12)

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game.date.year

which is the number of the current year (1914, 1915 etc.)

You will need to judge if your new number of turns will change the outcome of any event.

A simple example:

In Potzblitz the Christmas event triggers on turn 14 because each turn represents 2 weeks and turn 14 is late December.

If you would have changed the time per turn to 1 week you would need to trigger the event on turn 28 instead.

As you can see changing the number of turns is not easily done and will require A LOT of work to synchronize all stuff (including research times etc.).

Of course you can experiment but I guarantee you will get crazy results.

I would better not try it at all, if I were you.

[Kossatx]

Wow! Thanks a lot Robotron