The 3rd Video Development Diary

[Johan]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGslMgwDpu0

Chris talks about theatres and AI...

 

[Darkrenown]

I am pretty sure they have always been there in Paradox' internal debug versions, you won't see it in the release though.

This.

 

[Darkrenown]

Not much use for the human, I guess. I'm hoping the production AI will have access to that info, so that long-term planning in LUA scripts can finally be realized.

It's mostly for the player...You see a breakdown per front on what the AI thinks it needs, if it has enough troops to hold the front if it's set on defensive etc. You can also see if any of your allies are planning invasions or need help on their fronts.

 

[Darkrenown]

Nope.

 

[Darkrenown]

How about your enemies' theatres? Will it provide us also some info about enemy plans and intentions with the accuracy based on current intel?

Sadly, no. That would be cool, but we would need a "sneaky" AI which would plan false operations to throw you off...

 

[Darkrenown]

A general remark on videos:
Seeing footage while a narrator is explaining things is quite alright, but could you perhaps next time show things that are more related to the currently presented subject? It seemed like just randomly selected sequences from FtM. The only thing that was interesting for me to see were the new strategic resource icons on top of the production window. Otherwise, an audio presentation would have been fully sufficient this time.
It worked well for instance with the video section on the new partisan system last time.

The footage, which is by me (while the audio is by King), is actually recorded some time before the video DD is actually thrown together. At the time Strat resources hadn't been mentioned in detail yet etc, so it should have been a nice "reveal", but it ended up taking longer than expected to merge into this DD. But yes, if we keep doing video DDs they could be better.

 

[Darkrenown]

Maybe a new feature in the next installment? Would surely enhance espionage part of the game.

It's certainly an interesting idea...but I am not sure if it's feasible. It's hard enough to make a sensible AI, making one that can carry out it's own plan while also setting up false leads to fool players spying on it...I think it will make Doomdark's hair fall out
We'll what's possible if/when we make another x-pack.