AI, Does it attack without focuses?

[BrowneHawk]

I recently started a game and wanted to mess around with the custom options. I decolonized Africa because I thought it would be cool to see what they would do without EU intervention. They do nothing but sit there, even South Africa who I set to go fascist. They just chilled out and sat cozy in allies.

I shattered the Soviet Union thinking it would try to retake its stuff. Nope its currently sitting there waiting to be attacked by Germany.

So it all made me wonder, does the AI do nothing unless a potential focus makes it?

Does anyone know of a good mod that add ambition to the non majors? I feel like the AI should be more hungry to take stuff over.

[gaming]

Try Road to 56, gives a ton of nations nice focus trees and you can customize it a ton in the custom options

[Dagoth Brain Made Of Tired]

I find ai don't attack when they don't have focuses for it so ye they aren't aggressive enough

[Scheneighnay]

I've found that the AI's actions doesn't pertain to its focuses at all, prime example is, as always, Japan.

Japan will take the focus path to invade Russia rather than China, but go ahead and declare war on both of them.
Of course it's possible it's because of Communist China provoking Japan, the Japanese AI still shouldn't take the bait.

[Reichs-Vinyl-Kasper]

Originally posted by thega:

Try Road to 56, gives a ton of nations nice focus trees and you can customize it a ton in the custom options

Sadly Road to 56 runs like ♥♥♥♥.

[gaming]

Originally posted by Leon:

Originally posted by thega:

Try Road to 56, gives a ton of nations nice focus trees and you can customize it a ton in the custom options

Sadly Road to 56 runs like ♥♥♥♥.

Except it really doesn't

[Včelí medvídek]

To prevent Ai attack too randomly (to open itself multiple front war leading to fast lose) there are certain weights - causing for example balanced Germany and Soviet union just sits on place. Btw even focus (that only give war goal but not declare war right away) is not at all guarantee the Ai will attack (unless scripted like some action in histoical focus ON setup that preselect couple of otherwises random choices)

Otherwise coutnries like Germany tend to eventually declare war on all left and right - once they either defeat all neighbors or in opposite when they are losing and Ai get crazy. Neutral minors never attack anyone.

[Scheneighnay]

Originally posted by Včelí medvídek:

To prevent Ai attack too randomly (to open itself multiple front war leading to fast lose) there are certain weights - causing for example balanced Germany and Soviet union just sits on place. Btw even focus (that only give war goal but not declare war right away) is not at all guarantee the Ai will attack (unless scripted like some action in histoical focus ON setup that preselect couple of otherwises random choices)

Otherwise coutnries like Germany tend to eventually declare war on all left and right - once they either defeat all neighbors or in opposite when they are losing and Ai get crazy. Neutral minors never attack anyone.

I once saw Austria-Hungary at war with the allies, axis, and comintern at the same time.