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IfimbultyrI has Battlezone: Combat Commander

Mar 13, 2018 @ 2:17pm

AI cheats (MP)

why does the AI got infinite scrap? even if you turn the scrap cheat off?

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Originally posted by REVOEMAG:

I think it would be good to clear this up a little. You should all understand that something like this affects game balance so it's something we try really hard to understand before we touch it. Its really old code and making a change might have consequences we don't understand.

From a review of the code, scrap cheat 0 is NOT scrap cheap OFF, its scrap cheat LOW. The AI always cheats a little and if it didn't I suspect the AI would be too easy. There never was a way to turn it OFF, just turn it down.

The AI doesn't have the advanced brain that we do, so it needs a little extra help!

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Bytesmee

Mar 13, 2018 @ 8:17pm

Just to confirm, they have absolutely no pools and AI scrap cheat is on 0? Were there scavengers picking up loose scrap?

Rebel iscottnoidea Mar 14, 2018 @ 6:46am

I've raised this, thanks for letting us know :) BZIIR-2374

Rebel iscottnoidea Mar 15, 2018 @ 9:43am

The devs have got back to me and mentioned that this is by design and not a bug. The suggestion has been raised though.

IfimbultyrI has Battlezone: Combat Commander

Mar 15, 2018 @ 12:12pm

hmmm..ok. i can´t understand who would call something like that 'design' but ok:/
anyway thank you a lot for your work, keep going like that!

yeah

Mar 16, 2018 @ 6:55am

Well for having an option to make the AI (which is a desired feature) it can make sense to let it cheat by design. However ideally it should be configurable feature (like the scrap cheat settings).

Bytesmee

Mar 16, 2018 @ 7:05am

So what does 'Scrap Cheat 0' do then? I'm curious.

yeah

Mar 16, 2018 @ 12:04pm

Originally posted by Bytesmee:
So what does 'Scrap Cheat 0' do then? I'm curious.

As far as I know does scrap cheat change the speed in which scrap gets extracted from pools, 0 would be the default speed.

IfimbultyrI has Battlezone: Combat Commander

Mar 16, 2018 @ 12:39pm

Originally posted by yeah:
Originally posted by Bytesmee:
So what does 'Scrap Cheat 0' do then? I'm curious.
As far as I know does scrap cheat change the speed in which scrap gets extracted from pools, 0 would be the default speed.

but they dont need scrap to build somthing so its usless

Ded10c

Mar 16, 2018 @ 4:58pm

Originally posted by yeah:
Originally posted by Bytesmee:
So what does 'Scrap Cheat 0' do then? I'm curious.
As far as I know does scrap cheat change the speed in which scrap gets extracted from pools, 0 would be the default speed.

It does not. The scrap cheat grants the AI a scrap bonus every now and again; the speed of their normal scrap generation is controlled the same way yours is (that is, based on what types of pools you have and how much scrap you have already generated).

As-is the base AI scrap cheat gives the AI a single unit of scrap at two different intervals, one based on the number of players and the other based on the size of their starting force.

Last edited by Ded10c; Mar 16, 2018 @ 5:07pm

Bytesmee

Mar 16, 2018 @ 10:07pm

Yep, I know that the Scrap Cheat provides bonus scrap periodically, which is why destroying their pools is so important since the AI is only limited by its total capacity. 1/2/3 seem to relate to Easy/Medium/Hard difficulty/force in IA (starting Gun Spires are missing on 1, but are everywhere on 3). So what does 0 do?

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