AI file naming convention

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Since the 1.06 news filled me with some strange sort of energy, I thought I'd act according to a thought that popped into my head...

With the possibility of having multiple AI files for a country (and switching between them) being introduced in 1.06, it would probably be a good idea to decide upon a name format now for the sake of avoiding duplicates.

The format I suggest is "tag_name", where "tag" is the country's tag and "name" is a name used to describe the file. For instance, France under Napoleon would be "fra_nap" (or "fra_nappy", if EU2 can handle game file names longer than 8 bytes).

 

[Havard]

>8 char names is not a problem.

 

[Caliga]

This is what pops into my head:

russia_1419
russia_1500
russia_1600
russia_1700
russia_1800

For each major, and those can be punctuated by major leaders (Peter, Catherine, Ivan) who had a major impact on the country's development. The 'general' files would work for periods without notable leadership and would reflect general trends/help the nation grow or retract historically.

-Caliga

 

[Caliga]

Any additional feedback on this? I haven't been following the Personality Mod as it's been developing, but I have to believe that custom AI will not be built for every single possible monarch in the entire game... right? Assuming not, I suggest this kind of approach for 'vanilla' AI for individual nations/groups of similar nations who might not need individual AI (i.e. some of the German minors/African minors).