[MOD] SpeedKat's Remastered AI

[Chaingun]

Nice work. the amount of AI variables exposed makes me hopeful, despite how opaque a lot of them are right now.

I went through your files. in ai_plan_goals I tried a few different things.

to manage manpower a bit better:

is_low_mp = {\
    trigger = {
        manpower_percentage < 25
    }
    aggressive = -50
}

is_high_mp = {\
    trigger = {
        manpower_percentage > 75
    }
    aggressive = 50
}

to try to manage attrition (no idea if this actually does anything, could be completely wrong, just copied from the landlocked naval example):

# land
land_morale = 10000
land_morale_modifier = 10000
land_unit_attrition = 10000
land_morale_recovery = 10000

I interpret 1 define differently, "STRIKE_TEAM_ADVANTAGE" being an overkill target, which I set lower to 2, thinking it will for example aim to have a 40k stack fight a 20k stack, and not more

do you have any idea what wait_ae is or does? it's in the aiview goal planner all the time under a war declaration

I wish you could better inspect the tactical decisions being made. it seems almost impossible right now to distinguish between different army behaviour. I just ran a long game overnight, which seemed to be avoiding attrition at the beginning, but now at year 820 it's regularly stacking 60k with 10% attrition. that's my biggest problem with this AI, it still ends up with 0 manpower regularly. also is there any way to change the wages paid to max?

are you on any imperator discords? could be useful for further investigation or testing

here's a printmap of my overnight game to 820 - is this considered a game amount of blobbing for this late in the game?

Keep in mind when writing goals that they get updated quite infrequently (lowest guaranteed frequency is once a year, it will also do it on e.g. ruler change).

wait_ae will in 1.1 depend on a concretely moddable value ae_ceiling in goal files.

Type "mapmode ai" in console and select an army. You should see a color coded maps of utility values that (kind of) explaining why AI troops go where they are going. They may do different (hopefully more intelligent) things if pure_weight = yes hasn't been set though.