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cRPG => Suggestions Corner => Topic started by: Gnjus on August 02, 2011, 08:49:16 pm

Title: Strategos AI buying stuff for defenders
Post by: Gnjus on August 02, 2011, 08:49:16 pm
First of all sorry if this was already suggested but i think it would be cool if the AI bought the equipment based on the position/nation of the village/castle/town.

For instance: Bardaq castle is in Sarranid territory and there is more then enough sarranid gear of all kinds, maybe some realistic combinations like light/medium gear for village (cheaper one, since village is poor), light/medium/good for Castles and light/medium/good/best gear for Towns (they are the richest), for Nordic fiefs some nordic gear, for Vaegir fiefs rus equipment, for Rhodoks & Swadians knightly gear, for Khergits their own gear. Don't know if that's possible to add tho, but i think it would be an interesting addition. Maybe it would make AI's "choice" of equipment much easier and defender's looks more believable.  :wink:

Ofc, some equipment is universal (like crossbows) and for balance sake it should be made available for all towns & castles but most of the body/head/foot/hand armor and weapons are diverse enough to assign them all over the place and make battlefields look different from each other, based on the region of the map but still make some sense (unlike some combinations we've seen around lately).  :wink:
Title: Re: Strategos AI buying stuff for defenders
Post by: chadz on August 02, 2011, 09:00:12 pm
Too much/difficult work for only a small chapter of strategus. AI is merely there to delay the fief gaining :)
Title: Re: Strategos AI buying stuff for defenders
Post by: Magikarp on August 02, 2011, 09:03:50 pm
Too much/difficult work for only a small chapter of strategus. AI is merely there to delay the fief gaining :)
Not to mention the AI being limited in their equipment would only make it easier.

1. Oh we're fighting Rhodoks, prepare for crossbow spam!
2. Oh, the AI can't buy item x, spam equipment that benefits from this!
Title: Re: Strategos AI buying stuff for defenders
Post by: Corrado_Decimo on August 02, 2011, 10:24:33 pm
Not to mention the AI being limited in their equipment would only make it easier.

1. Oh we're fighting Rhodoks, prepare for crossbow spam!
2. Oh, the AI can't buy item x, spam equipment that benefits from this!

would be cool anyway. never heard of middle east saracens using xbows, katanas, greatswords... vikings spamming scimitars...
Title: Re: Strategos AI buying stuff for defenders
Post by: Jarlek on August 03, 2011, 01:53:09 am
would be cool anyway. never heard of middle east saracens using xbows, katanas, greatswords... vikings spamming scimitars...
While I don't know if the saracens used crossbows, there were some arabs who did. Might be in a later period, though, but then again cRPG isn't set in a specific either.
Title: Re: Strategos AI buying stuff for defenders
Post by: Gnjus on August 03, 2011, 08:06:35 am
Too much/difficult work for only a small chapter of strategus. AI is merely there to delay the fief gaining :)

You might have a point there (at least for villages) but i don't think that taking towns & castles should be a matter of formality (especially if you lower the recruitment rate tho that might just be a rumor), if you (in some final version ofc, not counting Bardaq and all that since there are many things that still need to be fixed) make every town & castle attack an automatic win for the attacker then very soon applying for defense becomes pointless, a waste of time. That said - there will be more then one big fief with multiple attempts of conquering it so.......  :wink:

But nvm, that's just me thinking without even knowing how much hard work is needed to perform it, i just thought that after a year in this mod it was a god damn time to make myself useful for a change.  :wink:

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Title: Re: Strategos AI buying stuff for defenders
Post by: chadz on August 03, 2011, 08:25:04 am
I like the new gjnus.
You can continue.
Title: Re: Strategos AI buying stuff for defenders
Post by: Mtemtko on August 03, 2011, 08:26:46 am
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Well done mortal, you may proceed.
Title: Re: Strategos AI buying stuff for defenders
Post by: Gnjus on August 03, 2011, 10:44:27 am
Well done mortal, you may proceed.

Proceed, hero, into Terror's lair.  :wink: