Bad fort ai

[AvengedK1ng]

Anyone else found examples of mass fort deletion like this

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The first war for Opole was well timed by Poland as I was currently engaged fighting a strong Timurids. All of teutons starting forts were still there making movement into Prussia slow, whilst the Lithuanian forts also limited my movement west to help out Austria. However by the end of that war Commonwealth was fully occupied whilst France (joined via gp intervention) had only occupied the forts in baden and bresigau. Commonwealth was left at least 1.6k in debt by the occupation.

However Commonwealth declared a second war for opole, whilst I was at peace, and between wars had somehow deleted all of its forts remaining after I took Polotsk sans krakow, enabling a swift full occupation. Why would the ai mass delete forts after a war, especially next to its rival? Hungary also mass deleted its forts after being PUed by Austria earlier on, but I could see their bad economy doing this.

 

[necro84]

I saw Mamluks do this, they had only lvl 1 fort in Cairo after their ally (Karaman or Dulkadir) lost to the Ottomans. They were fully occupied but haven't lost any land at this point so they should have good economy.

 

[Jespoke]

The fort AI has been through ups and downs through the last patches. Currently, tiny nations are way too happy to make a level 3 fort capital, while large countries are far too happy to delete all their forts instead of only some of them when trying to get out of debt after a war.

 

[necro84]

Maybe this is the cause

Made AI less likely to mothball forts when risky

AI don't want to mothball and can't afford so it deletes

 

[AvengedK1ng]

The fort AI has been through ups and downs through the last patches. Currently, tiny nations are way too happy to make a level 3 fort capital, while large countries are far too happy to delete all their forts instead of only some of them when trying to get out of debt after a war.

France has kept all its excess forts when put into debt but hasn't been full occupied
Commonwealth somehow allied France and GB between 1st and 2nd war so what if its ai evaluating its combined armies are enough to defeat enemies so doesn't need a fort? Whereas opms can never build a large enough army to outshine rivals so keeps its forts always.

Maybe this is the cause

AI don't want to mothball and can't afford so it deletes

Oh that'd make sense. I read it as just Byz will always keep corinth now
Just like subject rebels are now shown with the rebel warning red flag, I wish there was a subject debt flag too