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I don't know if you still have this problem. But I've spend a vast amount of time dealing with the AI and still only have a vague idea of how it works.

If not already done, try that:

The upgrade you want the AI to research, lets call it "Tech_One"

In the Attribute Editor, go to "ai_economy/attributes/complete/default" and clone it.

Now expand "player_upgrades" and add a new entry "player_upgrade_utility" to it. Set Tech_One as the blueprint and at "utility" type in a huge number like 5000.

Now go to "army/attributes/aef" (or whatever faction you wish). Clone it.

Expand "ai_production_info/unlocking_upgrade_list". Add your upgrade to the list in the "upgrade_pbg" key.

These are afaik the only options we have to give the AI the hint, and I give no guarantee that they work. I have partly satisfying results with these, thats all I can say.

Thanks for the reply.

I already suspected health criticals were responsible, I just wanted to make sure before replacing every single cloned criticals array. Will do that now.

So the position adjustment is impossible, I feared that this might be the case - and a forced rotation would also be a negative?

Yes, I figured that the squad section seems to be in control of the decorators. Anyway, I hoped that there would be a way to switch that control to the entity of the squad - so that it is recognized by the engine like a building.
I could of course set the "decoratable" key to false, but that would take away every 3D-Space indicator on the vehicles "health" status, so that is also a no go. I'll scratch that from the list.

Hey folks,

took me a while, but I recently sat down to work on a patch for my tuning pack. Anyway I noticed that since the Brits were released, quite a few things were broken with the addition of new damage classes.

Among these are appearently the damage effects on dead bodies. To be more accurate: When a unit in my mod is killed by fragmentation grenades, AT guns or mortars, it often starts burning as if it was killed by a molotov or flamethrower. Could someone with the knowledge point me to the source of this problem?



Another question: I want to create a custom trench for troops to take cover. Also MG Teams. Now the following is the case: The MG can only be pointed to the rear and sides, for some reason it can't be set up to face the front of the trench. How can I change that? I tried for a good 6 hours now and didn't come to any results.
If that is impossible because it may be hardcoded to the entity of the trench - would it be possible to force a 180 degree rotation on the trench object on construction?

Yet another question: Is it possible to give a vehicle the decorator type of a building? What I mean by that: Instead of the always visible symbol decorator, make it only showing a health bar - preferrably only on mouse over.
Unfortunatly my attemps on this proved to be a huge waste of time so far, health bar experiment aside, not even the "mouse_over" decorator variable seems to have any effect on vehicle entitys, the decorator always stays visible the whole time.


Hope that someone knows the answers to this, thx in advance

Hopefully the last question in a while.

Hopefully one with a solution to it this time


Is there a way to influence the modifier that controls manpower income reduction? My tuning pack has increased squad numbers. What I didn't think of in the planning phase was, that these numbers will automatically apply a heavy reduction on my manpower income, slowing down the whole game. I want to fix that. Without simply increasing manpower income overall in the army section.

For example: I start the round with a manpower income of +293. I order in a Grenadier Squad of 5 men, population cost 8. The manpower income will be reduced by 14, to +279. How is that number, the 14, the upkeep cost, controlled? How can I change it - so that there is less reduction/less upkeep cost.

I tried to find a pattern for how this works and I guess its a modifier, but I couldn't pinpoint the number and couldn't find any entries that might hint on the process.


This is literally the last thing standing in my way before I can release, so I really need to get this fixed. Any help is appreceated.

Hey people, again another question.

Or rather several at once.

I'm in the final pre-beta stage of creating my Mod Pack. And as a finishing touch, I want to adjust the AI behaviour. Not the combat behaviour, but some general things.


1. How can I tell the AI which custom units to use - and with a priority or probability maybe?

I found that a lot of squads are listed under ai_economy\complete\default. Although OKW and USF squads seem to be missing. The AI automatically started deploying custom units anyway - but is there a way to influence the probability? The economy values [utility, per_unit_X] have no documentation and I can't figure out what effect they have. Any intel on this would be really helpful.


2. How can I tell the AI which upgrades to buy - and with priority or probability maybe?

Same issue as with the squads. I have created several custom upgrades from scratch that need to be "researched" at buildings to unlock certain squads/units/vehicles/other upgrades (similar to battle phase). How can I make sure the AI will actually purchase these upgrades to gain access to the stuff? Or how likely the AI will choose to do so?


3. Can I influence the AIs choice of skin pack?

The AI chooses a specific skin pack very often, one that doesn't fit the aim of my mod pack (era focused). Is there a way to force the AI to not use a certain Skin Pack or use another one with higher probability - without forcing the skin for every vehicle entity, so that players can't use skin packs either?


I hope there is even any knowledge about this. Any help is appreciated.