AI Aggressiveness Needs Tweaks

[Hyzhenhok]

I thought I'd make a new thread for this.

As has been mentioned in nearly every thread about Iberia and Southern Italy, it's pretty obvious the AI is a wee too energetic when it comes to pressing Holy War CBs. And it doesn't seem very good at judging the strength of an enemy; it doesn't matter how many times they lose to a player-controlled Apulia or Sicily, they just keep attacking.

But the stupidity doesn't seem limited to religion--I just had an AI son, my primary heir, who has the content AND coward traits, who had inherited the Duchy of Achaia, attack his own father to try to steal the Duchy of Capua title that he was set to inherit (and in fact did inherit when is father croaked of old age a year after the war began).

In CK1, you had to play with AI aggressiveness set to Coward for the game to play out reasonably. Unfortunately in CK2, there is no option to adjust their aggressiveness, and whatever it is set to is unreasonably high.

 

[Tamas]

I am not too sure about that. Yes the AI jumps on any sign of weakness but that keeps you on your toes. Maybe a bit of tweak but any considerable change would make the game worse I think.

 

[unmerged(75409)]

The AI is reasonable in its declarations of war. Why? Because it knows it can win them, and that it's good for them (prestige, piety, lands, gold). A player would do the same thing.

What you want is a change in the rules, so that such declarations of war aren't THAT useful any more.

 

[Hyzhenhok]

The AI is reasonable in its declarations of war. Why? Because it knows it can win them, and that it's good for them (prestige, piety, lands, gold). A player would do the same thing.

What you want is a change in the rules, so that such declarations of war aren't THAT useful any more.

That explains why the AI attacks me whenever possible, but always loses.

It's pretty obvious the AI doesn't look at anything besides levy strength when judging whether or not it can win. Unfortunately for the AI, it really should be looking at levy size + coffers + income.

 

[repent]

It is pretty mental playing as Sicily. I've been slaughtered in two games out of two so far with holy wars against me and the damn Shia Caliphate jumping in.

 

[s1234567890m]

An 'AI_agressiveness' variable in the files would be good as well

 

[repent]

Played Sicily twice tonight and still can't defeat the 1-2-3 of the North African muslims.

 

[Madgan]

I was able to avoid destruction at the hands of the muslims by swearing fealty to the Byzantine Empire, albeit this was in the demo, no idea if it works now/or something has changed.

 

[MasterofMagic]

I thought I'd make a new thread for this.

As has been mentioned in nearly every thread about Iberia and Southern Italy, it's pretty obvious the AI is a wee too energetic when it comes to pressing Holy War CBs. And it doesn't seem very good at judging the strength of an enemy; it doesn't matter how many times they lose to a player-controlled Apulia or Sicily, they just keep attacking.

But the stupidity doesn't seem limited to religion--I just had an AI son, my primary heir, who has the content AND coward traits, who had inherited the Duchy of Achaia, attack his own father to try to steal the Duchy of Capua title that he was set to inherit (and in fact did inherit when is father croaked of old age a year after the war began).

In CK1, you had to play with AI aggressiveness set to Coward for the game to play out reasonably. Unfortunately in CK2, there is no option to adjust their aggressiveness, and whatever it is set to is unreasonably high.

I disagree the AI is playing MUCH better in this version than in CK1, I like aggressive AI's whether they win or lose I still like the activity. Passive AI's are a bore to play against. Keep it coming Paradox this is a good game with a great AI.

 

[Beagá]

Mercenaries are your friends. Praise Paradox for not allowing the AI to hire them or we would all be stomped in hilarious ways.

One problem I´ve noticed however is that the AI doesn´t take into acount the power of your allies. Also, it has its flaws in judging strenght, or else we wouldn´t see soo many failed DOWs versus the HRE or the byzantine emperors.

 

[zedyue]

Mercenaries are your friends. Praise Paradox for not allowing the AI to hire them or we would all be stomped in hilarious ways.

One problem I´ve noticed however is that the AI doesn´t take into acount the power of your allies. Also, it has its flaws in judging strenght, or else we wouldn´t see soo many failed DOWs versus the HRE or the byzantine emperors.

The AI does hire mercs, seen 2-3 of the lower stacks hired at a time sometimes. It's just very rare because they are so expensive.