Planet AI just... doesn't do what I want it to.

[Ryika]

So, I've been playing around with the planet AI, but for some reason it just does whatever it feels like.

In my attempts to figure out what I'm doing wrong, I have simplified things by just allowing the AI to construct two buildings, and by reducing them down to the most necessary building blocks. I also gave them the same limitations, etc. - hoping that I would be able to figure out what I'm doing wrong, but...

...now I have these two buildings left, and they're basically the same thing, just with different ai_weights:

The factory:

building_factory_1 = {
   base_buildtime = 360

   category = manufacturing
  
   potential = {  
       NOT = { has_modifier = resort_colony }
       NOT = { has_modifier = slave_colony }
   }
   allow = {
       has_upgraded_capital = yes
   }
  
   resources = {
       category = planet_buildings
       cost = {
           minerals = 400
       }  
       upkeep = {
           energy = 2
       }
   }  
  
   prerequisites = {
       tech_basic_industry
   }
      
   ai_weight = {
       weight = 200
   }
}

And the Foundry:

building_foundry_1 = {
   base_buildtime = 360

   category = manufacturing
  
   potential = {
       NOT = { has_modifier = resort_colony }
       NOT = { has_modifier = slave_colony }
   }
   allow = {
       has_upgraded_capital = yes
   }
  
   resources = {
       category = planet_buildings
       cost = {
           minerals = 400
       }
       upkeep = {
           energy = 2
       }
   }

   prerequisites = {
       tech_basic_industry
   }

   ai_weight = {
       weight = 20
   }
}

Both buildings work, produce no log errors and show up properly (without the jobs they'd normally have, so they're loaded).

Now, the Factory has a weight of 200, and the Foundry has a weight of only 20, which in my understanding means that the AI should build Factories, and yet, the AI always, and only, constructs... Foundries. Doesn't matter what values I enter, the AI only constructs Foundries.

...so I... must be missing something very obvious...?

 

[neptunehs]

Try to close all planet automation in AI?

 

[Ryika]

I'm... not entirely sure what you mean by that.

 

[neptunehs]

I'm... not entirely sure what you mean by that.

Well,because I don't know how AI works,so I don't know what I mean is right.
Maybe just try change something in sector_focuses and colony_automation may work...

 

[Ryika]

I deleted both of those folders earlier while I tested, and unfortunately, that had no effect (aside from producing some log errors).
I _think_ both of those are only used by the logic that determines how planet automation or sector automation work for human players.

I also referenced StarNet AI and Glavius's AI, and both of them do seem to work with the ai_weight part in the buildings (and districts) files when it comes to planet automation, so I do think I'm in the right place generally. I also do see that is some effect, some of the time: If I put the weights of those buildings to 0, the AI won't build them at all, but as soon as I add weights to those buildings, the AI just seems to spam the one that was loaded last, even if it has a much lower weight than the other ones.