France Alternate Democratic / Little Entente

[Xerberous]

Hi,

has anyone recently tried to set the French AI to go for Little Entente?
As I did so, France did anything but not going that way.

A view in the FRA_alternate_strategy_plan.txt showed, that the AI behavior is not really surprising; as given in the file, it cannot work.

FRA_alternate_plan_little_entente = {
    name = "France alternate plan: France attempts to form the little entente"
    desc = "Behavior for France if is set to form little entente"

    enable = {
        original_tag = FRA
        OR = {
            AND = {
                ENG = { has_completed_focus = ENG_a_change_in_course }
                NOT = { GER = { has_completed_focus = GER_oppose_hitler } }
            }
            has_country_flag = FRA_AI_DEMOCRATIC_ALTERNATE
            has_game_rule = {
                rule = FRA_ai_behavior
                option = DEMOCRATIC_ALTERNATE
            }
        }
    }
    abort = {
        OR = {
            CZE = { exists = no }
            CZE = { is_subject = yes }
        }
    }

    ai_national_focuses = {

   
        FRA_strengthen_the_little_entente
        FRA_strengthen_government_support
        FRA_metropolitan_france
        #1937
        FRA_industrial_expansion
        FRA_algerie_france
        #FRA_colonial_industry
        FRA_military_factories
        FRA_extra_research_slot
        #1938
        FRA_defensive_strategems
        FRA_defensive_focus
        FRA_invite_yugoslavia
        FRA_invite_romania
        #1939
        FRA_fortification_focus
        FRA_alpine_forts
        FRA_infantry_focus
        FRA_artillery_focus
        FRA_heavy_armor_focus
        #1940
        FRA_army_reform
        FRA_extra_research_slot_2
    }          
    research = {

    }

    ideas = {

    }

    # Keep small, as it is used as a factor for some things (such as research needs)
    # Recommended around 1.0. Useful for relation between plans
    weight = {
        factor = 1.0
        modifier = {
            factor = 1.0
        }
    }
}

Is this a bug or do I have a corrupted game file?

Thanks a lot!

 

[Mackus]

What seems to be the problem? As far as I can tell at first glance, it should work?

 

[Xerberous]

What seems to be the problem? As far as I can tell at first glance, it should work?

The relevant NFs are far down below in the tree and FRA_alternate_strategy_plan.txt offers no guidance the for AI how to get there. I tried it multiple times, the result is always the same: The French AI is messing around, sometime going communist, sometime going monarchist or fascist but literally never going for Little Entente; according to my understanding this behavior is totally in line with the strategy plan I posted.

 

[KubiG37]

I did not check, I don't have LaR, but if it is so it should probably be reported as a bug.

All the other NF presets (except Czechoslovakia, which is bugged in different way) have pretty clear focus orders that work.

 

[kettyo]

The script should work well as it seems.

 

[Xerberous]

The script should work well as it seems.

As far as I understand - please correct me if I'm wrong - the line

FRA_strengthen_the_little_entente

means "If the focus-requirements are met, choose focus "FRA_strengthen_the_little_entente" and nothing else. It does not mean "If the focus-requirements are not met, try to work towards "FRA_strengthen_the_little_entente" and since the requirements are not met, the AI is just messing around in the focus tree with the pre-defined probabilities which focus to choose.

 

[kettyo]

means "If the focus-requirements are met, choose focus "FRA_strengthen_the_little_entente" and nothing else. It does not mean "If the focus-requirements are not met, try to work towards "FRA_strengthen_the_little_entente" and since the requirements are not met, the AI is just messing around in the focus tree with the pre-defined probabilities which focus to choose.

You're right. The early focuses are missing in there. Better write a bug report.

This is working well for the case when Britan goes ahistorical to force democratic France to the Little Entente path when it comes to that but it fails for the custom set path. Probably would be best to have two plans, this one for the British ahistorical case and another more railroaded one for the custom set path.

 

[kettyo]

What is strange here to me is that according to the strategy plan as i understand it France could even go "buy time" but i have seen it consistently go Little Entente if Britain went ahistorical so it might work a bit differently than it seems.