AAI 0.55 - compatible with new spring version

[submarine]

i'm running aai a lot of time (however i had to start again this morning) but mainly aa. after 0.6, i hope there wont be further changes for some time - if you think aai has learned quite a bit or that your mod-cfg file is better than the default ones - upload them :)

[Tobi]

You should make a tool to merge learning data, so the entire community's hardware can operate as a mass-training-supercomputer

Or even better, have it automatically submit learned things to a big server and push out automated updates

[submarine]

You should make a tool to merge learning data, so the entire community's hardware can operate as a mass-training-supercomputer

hmm that sounds like a good idea

however there's no unique optimal solution, it depends very much on the player's flavour

[AF]

hmm, I planned to ahev that ability in NTAI XE7 btu I simpyl didnt have th necessary hosting at the time...

Anyways ti may itnerest you to knwo that I've looked into the glest AI interface code and looked in more depth at the spring code. I have a good diea on implementing a CMD_HARVEST and so on, which would implement everything requried for Glest or AoE style resources exept for a tag in features that made them self replicating and harvestable.

[mecha]

how's V0.6 going?

[submarine]

how's V0.6 going?

0.6 is more or less done. we're still testing but everything seems to fine and stable so i think its only few days until release

[mecha]

sweet!

[AF]

hmm Have you finsihed all your work then submarine? Shall we be seeing mroe regular updates?

And what do you have in store for 0.6 other than bugfixes, LRPC support and fixed water support?

[submarine]

here the current changelog

AAI v0.60: (AAI's folder structure changed as well as all cache/learning files - i heavily recommend deleting old
AAI versions before installing AAI 0.60)

- Experimental water map support, view FAQ for more details

- Changed buildtable: Hover crafts got their own category (no longer part of ground units) and several
code cleanups to optimize speed

- AAI remembers which usefulness of different assault categories and orders further combat units based on
that (i hope this will especially help adjusting the amount of land, hover and sea units aai uses on a
mixed land/water map)

- Added support for stationary artillery (e.g. berthas) (added MAX_STAT_ARTY statement to mod cfg)

- Added support for air repair pads (added MAX_AIR_BASE statement to mod cfg)
edit: seems to be broken somehow

- Added support for several factories of the same type (added MAX_FACTORIES_PER_TYPE statement to mod cfg)

- AAI now defends extractors outside its base up to a certain max dinstace with cheap defence buildings
(added MAX_MEX_DEFENCE_DISTANCE statement to mod cfg)

- Builder selection improved, AAI now uses closest idle builder

- Improved Air Force handling (added MAX_AIR_GROUP_SIZE, MIN_AIR_SUPPORT_EFFICIENCY statement to mod cfg)

- Improved/Fixed several mod cfg files

- Improved ressource management a bit

- Improved defence building selection

- Fixed a bug that crashed game right at the start on certain maps (eg. Battle Holmes)
(thx to HiEnergy for reporting this bug)

- Fixed a few crashbugs

- Fixed various smaller issues/bugs

- Extended memory sharing between multiple instances of AAI and fixed a shared memory related crashbug

[submarine]

And what do you have in store for 0.6 other than bugfixes, LRPC support and fixed water support?

what is "LRPC" ?!?

[AF]

Long range plasma cannon

berthas buzzsaws intimidators vulcans etc

[submarine]

update:

there are some problems running the linux version of aai with some mods that work without any porblems with win xp

but i hope to be able to release aai 0.6 this evening


edit: postponed due to some bugs...

[AF]

hmm, me wonders how you'll release a closed source version of AAI 0.6 for linux...

[submarine]

hmm, me wonders how you'll release a closed source version of AAI 0.6 for linux...

wait and see :)