For a long time now I've wondered these particular questions:
"What makes allies AI so much better than the others?"
"What can I do to improve the Japan AI?"
"What makes an AI better than another?"
It took me until 1.04 to finally figure out something that may or may not work good for the Japan AI's.
Actually, one of my new AI's showed me something cool.
His name is Kyoichi, he is similar to Hine.
He defends like a Paranoia AI, and attacks likes Aggro.
However unlike Hine, Kyoichi is successful. With a record of 7-3 Kyoichi has done quite well during my exhibition matches vs other AI. Not to mention he has performed well in my last tournaments between my AI's.
He's shown me the effectiveness of Japan defenses, he has proven that they are one of his keys to being a stronger more formidable opponent for Allied & Soviet AI's.
It's not that he turtles, it's that he just uses defenses in general and it works from what I've observed.
Continuing, I also seen some success of mecha tengu use all game long, especially as an anti air unit.
So I've implemented these two improvements into all my Japan AI's.
As tradition I shall do a tournament before release 1.04 to everyone.
This will truly help me determine 2 things:
1: If I actually improved the Japan AI's.
2: Bugs, these tourneys include every AI including each form of aggro, paranoia, ace and complexity.
So tournaments are quite necessary in order to make sure no AI crashes the game.
So how long will you have to wait until 1.04 will be released...
7 days maximium. I run the tournament all day and I don't watch each match, I simply run them and mark results. So it'll take about 3-4 days to complete, there's a lot of AI's ya know.
It may take longer if I end up playing some games myself, which is very likely.
Then it'll take like 12 hours for the release to be authorized by moddb.
As a reward for reading this, I'll say this.
There's more new AI's than 1.03.
One of which builds absolutely no defensive structures, and another which loves to build century bombers.
A soviet AI who starts with 3 barracks.
AND A KIROV RUSHER!
