AI does nothing

[Majour]

Hey there, for the last 3 days when I try to play a standard game against the AI, I notice after a few minutes that the enemy teams are doing nothing with the exception of one or two. Literally, the workers are just standing there doing nothing.

Any help would be very much appreciated!

[BarbarossaBlade]

Which difficulty setting are you using?

[Majour]

I have also tried it on all difficulties, regular vs forgotten xpac, doesn't change.

[BarbarossaBlade]

Have you tried verifying your game cache? It sounds like some of the AI files may be corrupted or something.

[Visceral]

Again, can't speak for Boris, but I tried that. It didn't do anything.

[-Dare Devil/x/]

-Does it happen on every map?

[Cysion]

I checked the video, this is probably how the old AI handles lack of resources, in this case the infamous "wood screw", which has sadly been around since the original game. The map you played in the video (Hamburger) is very prone to this.

The not-attacking is bothering me though. When you say you tried different difficulties, does this include hard and hardest? On lower difficulties the AI is very passive.

[Majour]

I haven't tried verifying my cache yet, but I have tried it on the hardest difficulty, and 3-4 AI's went right to work, the other 3-4 didn't do anything, they just stood around.

[Cysion]

Boris: was this in multiplayer or single player?

[Visceral]

Originally posted by Cysion:

The not-attacking is bothering me though. When you say you tried different difficulties, does this include hard and hardest? On lower difficulties the AI is very passive.

I have tried games on a few difficulties, including the hardest one. That does not seem to make a difference.

[-Dare Devil/x/]

Originally posted by baconadorade:

I have tried games on a few difficulties, including the hardest one. That does not seem to make a difference.

-At what time of reference do you notice this? Or is it they never ever make military at any point of the game?

-Also, if you play a death match game, what happens?

[Visceral]

Originally posted by -Dare Devil/x/:

-At what time of reference do you notice this? Or is it they never ever make military at any point of the game?

-Also, if you play a death match game, what happens?

I've been testing out with a few stuff. I played a game on death match, with seven other AI players, each in groups of two. (So, everybody including me had one team mate.)

I then played a random map game with the same team settings. Both games ended with an enemy team promptly coming over to slaughter me, just as it should be. I played both games on the hardest difficulty.

Here is a screenshot of the first game's settings: http://i.imgur.com/gKYA3Tj.jpg

Here is a screenshot of the second game's settings: http://i.imgur.com/6ETr5u1.jpg

So, it seems that the no-attack thing only happens under certain situations. I'm going to play a few more games later on on various settings to test this further.

[Majour]

Single player. I notice right in the beginning because the workers stand in the positions they spawn in and don't move. I'm not having a situation where the AI doesn't attack, I'm having a situation where the AI doesn't move the entire game.

[Glenn]

I'm having the same issue!

[Glenn]

I just tried a couple more maps to test things. It seems to happen mostly on Archipelago or Island random map single player games. Difficulty or starting resources had no effect. Very rarely was I able to start a game and have all players actually working (2-3 computers players, mixed results). Is there any chance of getting this fixed? I love this game, I love playing single player, but this really stinks.

[Majour]

^If it helps, I am also playing Islands.