AI Autobuild System

[omega20056]

Having to construct buildings yourself in EUIV can be tedious. I often don't have enough money or monarch points (Which shouldn't be needed to construct buildings, money should be the only requirement) to build most buildings. One of the things I liked about CK2 was that your vassals would improve their holdings on their own, so you'd only have to worry about your own holdings. I think we need to remove the monarch point requirement (I usually disable it) and add a system to allow AI to construct buildings for you. You could set a reserve of cash the AI could never dip into and have the ability to turn the function off when you need all of your cash or just don't care.

 

[mattyh1995]

Having to construct buildings yourself in EUIV can be tedious. I often don't have enough money or monarch points (Which shouldn't be needed to construct buildings, money should be the only requirement) to build most buildings. One of the things I liked about CK2 was that your vassals would improve their holdings on their own, so you'd only have to worry about your own holdings. I think we need to remove the monarch point requirement (I usually disable it) and add a system to allow AI to construct buildings for you. You could set a reserve of cash the AI could never dip into and have the ability to turn the function off when you need all of your cash or just don't care.

I like this whole cash pool idea, it'd be good if you could dedicate a certain percentage of your income too. Also I'm the same with the monarch point thing, I always mod it out when possible.

 

[IIWW]

Adding a queue would be enough. I mean, You can build through ledger, and I fear that autobuild would work awful.

 

[omega20056]

Adding a queue would be enough. I mean, You can build through ledger, and I fear that autobuild would work awful.

It would need to be balanced, that's why a cash pool or an option to dedicate a percentage of your income as mattyh1995 said would be needed.

 

[Vistariel]

It would need to be balanced, that's why a cash pool or an option to dedicate a percentage of your income as mattyh1995 said would be needed.

If think he was suggesting that it would be awful due to the AI not knowing what to build when, or putting the priorities in the wrong places, or just the tedious nature of constructing an algorithm to direct the autobuild.

 

[IIWW]

If think he was suggesting that it would be awful due to the AI not knowing what to build when, or putting the priorities in the wrong places, or just the tedious nature of constructing an algorithm to direct the autobuild.

The first one I'm afraid the AI could go crazy in provinces like Danzig (high BT and an estuary; Goverment or trade?) or if he should prioritze building in dofferent provinces (increase production in one, or gov in other? what about prioritizing between naval and army?). This could theoretically be done right, but this would need to be a very sophisticated system, and from current experience I wouldn't trust it would work right.