BUG: AI never upgrades planes

[Lothos]

AI never upgrades

I have noticed this many times. I will give Hungary and Rumania every tech I have but they never upgrade their tanks nor fighters. They have the same modes for the units they started the game with. All future units are the new stuff but he wont upgrade his old stuff. I found myself several times having to take military control of their country and disbanding these units just to force him to make the newer version of it.

 

[unmerged(14102)]

mmmm ... I have seen Germany upgrade its Armor. However, I have never seen anyone upgrade their air units. Never bothered to monitor the naval units.

 

[Vulture]

Sorry, you are plainly wrong... They do upgrade their units. If you want to check this, open the ledger, go to national army comparison and check the panzer column for Germany & USSR for example. From time to time, their number of panzers will dwindle down tremendously, which is when they are upgrading them.

 

[Lothos]

Check countries like Hungary and Rumania. This may be an IC issue. Germany and Russia have alot more IC than Hungary and Rumania.

 

[unmerged(14102)]

Vulture: How about the Air upgrades? Does the AI do that?

 

[Vulture]

Never took notice... I'll pay attention to it.

 

[unmerged(14719)]

AI Upgrades for Air Units

Nope, in 1.05c no mods (i like em original)

Air units do not upgrade. in my current game as germany, I have ME110s, i'm shooting British GLADIATORS down like its a fashion statement. Its 1942 btw.

However, the US have b-17s..........

Have given almost all the air techs to japan and italy, but still no upgrades. Disbanded all their old stuff, a year later and still no building.

Strangely though, my Italian AI ally has stopped producing anything for over 2 years.

 

[Lothos]

Vulture can we have this thread title changed from NOT A BUG back to BUG since we identified air units are not being upgraded.

 

[Vulture]

Okido... Reported...

 

[Lothos]

Vulture, at work and I was just thinking about something. Does the AI have the ability to decide which type of plane to build.

Example if you give the AI two technologies.

Long Range Fighters
Short Range fighters


The AI will build nothing but long range fighters even though the short range have a better air to air ratting.


This same thing applies to tanks. When the AI upgrades/builds new armor he always selects the one on the to of the list. He does not have the ability to say I want 50% of my armor to be light tanks and 40% to be medium tanks and 10% to be heavy tanks. He will always build the one on the top of the list.

 

[Vulture]

Originally posted by Lothos
Vulture, at work and I was just thinking about something. Does the AI have the ability to decide which type of plane to build.

Example if you give the AI two technologies.

Long Range Fighters
Short Range fighters


The AI will build nothing but long range fighters even though the short range have a better air to air ratting.


This same thing applies to tanks. When the AI upgrades/builds new armor he always selects the one on the to of the list. He does not have the ability to say I want 50% of my armor to be light tanks and 40% to be medium tanks and 10% to be heavy tanks. He will always build the one on the top of the list.

Nope... But it's a long-standing enhancement request.

 

[GLENN]

As UK I always have the same problem with Canada.

So, I disband the air units.

Once in awhile I do the same thing for the tanks, I disband them.

Then they build the modern version.

I always see they same problem for German allies like Solvakia.

They never update either. Solvakia could be an IC problem.

 

[Vulture]

Originally posted by GLENN
As UK I always have the same problem with Canada.

So, I disband the air units.

Once in awhile I do the same thing for the tanks, I disband them.

Then they build the modern version.

I always see they same problem for German allies like Solvakia.

They never update either. Solvakia could be an IC problem.

Aye, for Slovakia it's prolly that.

 

[unmerged(20242)]

Originally posted by PaxMondo
Vulture: How about the Air upgrades? Does the AI do that?

once as germany i sailed 21 advanced cruisers (sealion) throught the channel and the brits throwed all he got at me, my jet fighters from bases in france shot down the entire british airforce over the channel and wat suprised me was that i was fighting GLOSTER GLADIATORS and SWORDFISH.

it was a few spitfires and hurricanes there but not many, 80% of fighter force was gladiators. all torpedo bombers was swordfish.

it was late in the game, 43-44 i think. just finished of the commitern.

the battle for the channel lasted a long time and the brits had a lot of ships, but the heaviest battleships were no match for my cruisers, my guess was that royal navy used five years old technology.
does the ai upgrade ships?

 

[unmerged(20242)]

for uk i dont think it can be blamed on a ic shortage, only bad ai decisions.

 

[GLENN]

Playing Germany and I am still waiting for Italy to upgrade their fighters. Its Sept 42.

I have been sending them resources, maybe I'll send them some more. Will let you know if they don't update in the next year.

 

[GLENN]

I made it to Jan 43 then CTD, but I did check Italy and they did build a new upgraded plane to replace the one I disbanded.

But still no new upgrading of exsisting air units on their own yet.

 

[Vulture]

Ok ok... I think the point has been made by now

That CTD of yours Glenn, did it have to do with the torpedo_plane bug?