Fairplay AI
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Overview
Starting as a personal mod of mine for single player and multiplayer with friends, I thought I would upload it for anyone else to enjoy; it makes changes to the AI to play far more "Fair" across the board, while still making sure that difficulty still matters. This doesn’t make the AI harder, but the aim is to make the AI play fairer and to role play their part better alongside the player.
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Features
- AI bonuses across all difficulty settings have been changed or greatly reduced depending on the difficulty, and the game now plays closer to the players experience while making sure the AI can still use all it’s features. However, the difficulty will still help dictate certain behaviours allowed to the AI and how they try to keep pace during the game and some modifiers they get.
The hardest of difficulties apply some of the above while giving their starting army a value boost and a income-multi based on their difficulty to make sure they don’t run into deficits at the game start, and to stay competitive without cheating against the player, nothing else is added. Unlike in the vanilla game where the AI got massive production/research/Unit XP/Imperium boosts each turn and a lot more over the top bonuses which meant spamming stacks and worse. Higher difficulties should give a better experience for normal players, while the AI is affected by their economy.
- Improves AI personalities to be more in line with their descriptions.
- Helps the AI stop spamming colonies; now, on higher difficulties, the AI will try for a more natural lead of colonies if able to do so and have a higher priority for where to colonise. Colonisers are a bit more and scale better for Players and AI.
- The AI focuses more on their own racial troops, while also being less inclined to spam dwelling units depending on their personality. The AI will also try to lead by the number of military units it has based on it’s difficulty and the number of units the strongest Human player has in comparison.
- The AI is now more likely to raze colonies during wartime or to migrate their primary faction to new colonies when captured, unless, for example, if the AI is a Xenophile or a more Peaceful AI personality type. There are fewer penalties for doing so, and they are based more on personalities, meaning more factions stick to their primary species; although they can still have alliances/treaties with other species.
- Smaller changes and tweaks.
- AI bonuses across all difficulty settings have been changed or greatly reduced depending on the difficulty, and the game now plays closer to the players experience while making sure the AI can still use all it’s features. However, the difficulty will still help dictate certain behaviours allowed to the AI and how they try to keep pace during the game and some modifiers they get.
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F.A.Q
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Load Order
Best results having it last in your load order.
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Compatibility
Tested and is working with Faction add-on mods, the
DLC in Campaigns Mod and the Adventure Mod, among others, without known issues. I highly recommend them all, espcially the Adventure Mod and the faction-add on mods. -
Issues/Suggestions
The mod gets updated regularly; unsubbing/resubbing can also fix problems with Steam Workshop or by verifying the game files. Bugs can be posted in the comments, or preferably, you are welcome to DM me for any bugs or suggestions, and I’ll do my best to see what I can do.
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What’s Next?
For now, the mod is mostly feature-complete and polished without outstanding issues. However, I will keep balancing in mind and watch for any bugs relating to the mod.
Authors NoteThis mod was made for personal use, the icon and art are AI generated as I needed something placeholder for the mod. The mod tries creating a more immersive game play. I mainly use it with Vanilla or the "Adventure Mod". I uploaded it in case anyone else wanted to enjoy these changes too.
I will keep the mod up-to-date and as compatible as possible while making necessary changes.
Leave a like if it’s also helpful for your experience. It truely is appreciated!
Age of Wonders 4 – FairPlay AI Modhttps://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2979968862
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Revisions:
Old revisions of this mod are available below. Click the link to download.
