idshibanov
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3 years ago @LeHerosInconnu This is partially addressed by #2155 .
AI heroes like to play with Stone Liths. :)
Already fixed in the pull request. They always had some internal value for the lack of better logic. Now stone liths considered valuable only if not every exit is explored, otherwise it's ignored. Note that current AI already can plan paths through stone liths when other side is not in the fog of war.
In the original game, there are always defending creatures in all AI castles. It is extremely rare to see defenseless AI castles (usually when there are no more creatures to recruit or on day 1 when the AI hasn't had the hand yet to recruit the creatures).
This a lazy and wrong approach; it shouldn't be done this way. Gold is very limited in this game, even for AI. Useless garrison = less buildings are recruiting power when it matters.
Current AI buys creatures only if castle is under threat (enemy army detected within certain radius). Day 7 or any other day handled the same. I believe that current radius should cover most cases, but we can easily adjust it if you find a way to exploit. Also note if multiple castles are under attack it will reinforce most valuable ones first.
In fheroes2, during the combat, the AI hero runs away with a still large army when he could do more damage to the human player's troops without risking losing the battle.
Threshold right now is 10% of enemy army. We can add a more elaborate logic later, but it's not a top priority. There's bigger fish to fry.
LeHerosInconnu
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In the original game, the AI always collects resources, visits locations with potential resources, and captures mines and the like when possible.
In fheroes2, even if the AI doesn't need resources in the short term, it will always need them in the long term and most importantly it prevents the human player from collecting these resources.
Lean To not visited (and uncaptured resources and Water Wheel, and another Lean To not visited not far away to the northwest): "Lean To 01.sav". In fheroes2:
Magic Garden not captured: "Garden 01.sav". In fheroes2:
Pile of Ore not collected, and Magic Gardens not captured: "Ore pile 01.sav". In fheroes2:
Here are the save files: Resources not captured.zip
In fheroes2, during the combat, the AI hero runs away with a still large army when he could do more damage to the human player's troops without risking losing the battle.
In the original game, AI heroes always try to do the maximum damage to the human player's troops (apart from mandatory attacks on shooters, etc.) because the human player does not have significant resources to replace his lost troops. Again, this is an AI "strategy" to reduce the power of the human player's armies.
Edit 2020/12/27.
Some remarks concerning a game played with version 0.8.4 2479.
A simple rule to apply for AI regarding resources:
In fheroes2:
Orange AI hero captured the gold mine, but did not pick up the piles of resources or capture the Magic Gardens:
Red AI player did not pick up easily accessible resources or capture the Magic Garden near the captured resource generators:
Green AI hero did not pick up the resource stack right next to his position:
Red AI hero did not capture the Magic Garden located near his path to capture the gold mine:
Red AI hero captured the gold mine but did not capture the Magic Gardens:
Orange AI heroes did not capture the Magic Garden located near their position:
Edit 2021/02/02.
Some remarks concerning a test with version 0.8.4 2704.
Edit 2021/04/28.
I did a test with fheroes2 0.9.2 3284.
AI heroes keep landing in places where the only possible action is to re-embark.
In fheroes2:
End the turn.
Here is the save file (before the AI hero landed): Before AI land no way 10.zip