Formation size

I am modifying the sorian C AI. Right now, the AI places the units in formation that is usually 6,9, or 10 units wide. I wish to change this. Could someone tell me which file I need to modify in order to get the ai to place units in formations of sizes such as 20 units wide?



I have been searching all of the lua files and cannot seem to find the formation size function.

mikecoon|||The file is probably formations.lua. Check out the AttackFormation function. But depending on what you want to achieve it may be better to select the formations in the AILandAttackBuilders.



Remember that Sorians AI hooks files rather than containing the whole file so check out the original version of the file in the lua.scd file in the gamedata folder.



Next question is ... why? 20 wide seems a bit over the top unless you are talking 200 plus units in one platoon?|||Duncane,

Thanks.

I am creating attacks with up to 300 units at a time.

mikecoon|||In some way it's better if an AI waits with attacking until it has a huge force to attack with, rather than quite a few small ones, but waiting too long for it to attack can unbalance things as well |||It is much better to have a huge force. Right now, I got my defenses up to the point where they can easily beat any attack the AI throws at it.



I just want to push the envelope and see how my defense can handle 300 plus units with 50 air units and 10 exp from three Sorian C offense AI's

mikecoon|||In that case you may be better at adjusting the land platoons size in AI/AIPlatoonTemplates. The formation will adjust automatically for the large numbers.



Let me know if you want help understanding the platoon files.|||Okay I got the formations to work.

Could someone tell me what the factoryinfinitebuild does? I guess it keeps the factories pumpoing out units without stopping. How do I get the AI to make all the factories go into infinite build mode?

mikecoon|||factoryinfinitebuild is from the SC AI not the FA AI... are you modding the SC AI? If so if you are using Sorians C AI for SC then the factoryinfinitebuild is already enabled.|||Yes i am using sorian C from SC.



Say, how are the AI's in FA compared to SC? How are the custom AI's for FA versus SC?

mikecoon|||The AI in FA is WAY better that SC. It does have overheads in terms of performance, but in my opinion the FA AI is much better to play against.



Sorians custom AI for FA is already very good. Also I have put together a fix pack for the stock AI's in FA rather than do my own custom AI.|||+ there are better turtle crackers available in FA.|||overhead. okay, so I wont be able to play agianst two or more AI's?



I have AMD 3.2 ghz, 4 gig of ram, and 7950 video card. With 3 sorian C offense AI's, the game slows down to 1 sec of game time being equal to 3 seconds of real time.



I have no problems tho with two AI's.|||Thats a single core AMD yeah? You should upgrade to dual core CPU if possible.



You will should be okay with 2 or 3 AIs on small maps, but large maps will cause you problems, but I expect that was true in SC yeah?|||Actually, it is dual core. Plus i use core maximizer which works pretty well actually.



Why does large maps give the computer a hard time?

mikecoon