Total AI insanity! List it here.

[Agenor]

Hi everyone,

I thought a thread listing the insane actions of the AI might be interesting to the developers, and other players.

My latest observation of AI insanity:

German Republic declares war on Switzerland! This literally within days of WW2 ending, and perpetrated by Konrad Adenauer's new democratic Germany. The only problem: Germany has zero divisions. Switzerland has about twenty. Switzerland proceeds to conquer Germany. Switzerland joins the Allies. All the Allies are at war again with Germany, having signed a peace treaty a few days previously, and join in conquering Germany. It's a race between the Swiss and the Dutch for Berlin.

Is this becoming a fantasy game?

 

[Anthropoid]

The volume of aircraft in the air seems a bit inflated. Maybe I'm overcompensating with too much air superiority?

 

[Ryousan2k]

The US JUST went to war against the Allies on Historical on my most recent run

¬¬u...

 

[Agenor]

Democracies should be forbidden from waging war on one another, I think unless

1. The target country is part of an aggressive faction, or

2. The target country owns one of your core provinces. If two democracies have a core on the same province, it should go to binding arbitration. Democracies waging war on each other in the 20th century doesn't make a whole lot of sense.

 

[Wasted Shampoo]

Is somebody bothered as much as I am by Italy losing Sardinia immediately after the declaration of war?

 

[BurdenedWarrior]

Democracies should be forbidden from waging war on one another, I think unless

1. The target country is part of an aggressive faction, or

2. The target country owns one of your core provinces. If two democracies have a core on the same province, it should go to binding arbitration. Democracies waging war on each other in the 20th century doesn't make a whole lot of sense.

This isn't totally true. The British tried to attack and occupy neutral Norway. hmm that is the only example I can think of right now though.

 

[Will Steel]

Did they not also attack French ships to prevent them from falling into Axis control?

 

[Quantum_AI]

AI is not able to use the new manpower changes properly. Germany frequently runs out by 1941, and countries sometimes pick total economic mobilization which depletes what little manpower they did have.

Also, for some reason even by 1946 almost all of the minister/ tech company slots were empty for the US, and about half for Germany. I don't know what they are spending the PP on and more importantly, why.

 

[Quantum_AI]

Did they not also attack French ships to prevent them from falling into Axis control?

Yes they did. Operation catapult - almost 1300 French sailors died.

BTW when the Germans DID try to take over the French fleet later (Case Anton), the French scuttled their own ships.

 

[ThuderLizard2]

Here's an example of broken garrisoning - US leaves Hawaii and West Coast poorly defended with one UK colonial division

 

[BlueAndGrey]

The Belgians decided on messing up my frontline by walking back to Belgium instead of using naval transport

 

[Jorgas]

1.5.0
UK brought every single unit in 1940 to Narvik in norway, a few months later 0 manpower for every single UK+Puppet+ally
1.5.1
Japan rushing china in 37 manages to get every singel item inside a pocket 1.5 million solders dead in 1-2 months / china steamrolling japan

waiting for modders to fix game now :/ paradox wont ever hire a dedicated ai programmer for this sh*t since that would be like admitting "okey the ai was 100% useless"

 

[Zavaleta]

The AI is granting military access to everyone (just like in the earlier versions after release), leading to British and American troops fighting on the Russian front in historical mode. The AI should just be banned from asking for military access in the future considering the devs don't seem able to maintain this bug fix from patch to patch. How did the developers manage to re-break old bugs again with a new patch?

 

[Agenor]

Here's an example of broken garrisoning - US leaves Hawaii and West Coast poorly defended with one UK colonial division

This is an ancient problem. I gave up playing Japan quite early on when I realized I could just stroll into Hawaii and California. Seemed to make the whole thing a bit pointless.

 

[Meglok]

Hi everyone,

I thought a thread listing the insane actions of the AI might be interesting to the developers, and other players.

My latest observation of AI insanity:

German Republic declares war on Switzerland! This literally within days of WW2 ending, and perpetrated by Konrad Adenauer's new democratic Germany. The only problem: Germany has zero divisions. Switzerland has about twenty. Switzerland proceeds to conquer Germany. Switzerland joins the Allies. All the Allies are at war again with Germany, having signed a peace treaty a few days previously, and join in conquering Germany. It's a race between the Swiss and the Dutch for Berlin.

Is this becoming a fantasy game?

We would all be better off if issues like this were also posted in the bug sub-forum to get fixed.

No problem with complaining in the main forum, but there is no guarantee anything posted here will ever be acted upon. The devs are usually too busy to read every main forum thread, but they read every posted bug report.

 

[Veag]

As communist China, I declared war on the Ma clique. So, he joins Comintern. So Japan asks me to join their faction. Did the AI just forget how to ideology?

 

[ThuderLizard2]

How about AI suicide charges into forts and entrenched positions. An oldie and a baddie.

 

[SeekTruthFromFx]

ng for modders to fix game now :/ paradox wont ever hire a dedicated ai programmer for this sh*t since that would be like admitting "okey the ai was 100% useless"

Factually incorrect. Paradox hired a dedicated AI programmer last year, but he/she is reluctant to use the forums. Threads like this make it difficult to deny that he/she made a sensible decision.

 

[TheLastMonkeylander]

In December 1939, as the USSR, I invaded Finland after they refused to give up the frontier states. The Finns weren't garrisoning their southern and southeastern border at all. While they had their entire army in Lapland, my Soviet troops were able to march mostly unopposed into Finland's victory points.

AI needs to prioritize their frontlines and defense better. Finland should know that Soviet troops are stationed at Leningrad and ready to strike them, especially when I have a wargoal against them.

 

[Laotze]

Playing as Germany, I have to endure watching Japan get steam rolled in China knowing they have 50+ divisions sitting on their thumbs on the home islands . . . Even reboots don't jump start the JAP AI into doing anything. Just create a front and assign the damn divisions already. They have maybe a dozen divisions in China total. I guess I should know they will never get the Pacific theater right.