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AIBaseDefenseCoefficient

Added in 0.2.0
Specification
Applies to
Side
File
rules.ini
Section
[<ObjectType ID>]
Value
floating point
When omitted
ComputedThe first side takes GDIBaseDefenseCoefficient and the second NodBaseDefenseCoefficient, as each rules file sets them; any other side uses 1.
rules.ini
[GDI]
AIBaseDefenseCoefficient=1.5

Scales how many base defenses a computer house playing for this side mixes into its base plan as the plan grows more expensive. A higher value gives more defenses, earlier in the plan. The house applies it when it generates its plan.

Before each plan entry from the fourth on, the house works out how many defenses it wants so far:

  1. It takes C, the combined cost at this house’s prices of the structures already copied into the plan, not counting the first (normally the construction yard). Towers and placeholders add nothing to C.
  2. It computes (C - 2000) / 1500 and truncates it to a whole number.
  3. It multiplies that by this value and truncates again.

When the result exceeds the defenses already planned, the difference goes into the plan as -1 placeholders. The defense planner later fills each placeholder with a defense structure.

For example, at a coefficient of 1.5:

  • When C is 4300, (4300 - 2000) / 1500 truncates to 1, and 1 times 1.5 truncates to 1. One placeholder goes in.
  • When C later reaches 6100, (6100 - 2000) / 1500 truncates to 2, and 2 times 1.5 is 3. With one already planned, two more placeholders go in ahead of the next entry.

The formula has no difficulty term, but a harder game plans more extra refineries, and their cost counts toward C. At the same coefficient, a harder game therefore reaches each defense threshold earlier in the plan.

This value does not scale the block of AIBaseDefensePlaceholders placeholders added after the last entry.

At 0, the house mixes no defenses into the plan. Any trailing block and any defenses along its perimeter wall remain.

See also — AIBaseDefensePlaceholders, ai-base-building

History

  1. Added0.2.0In development

    Read base building from the side a house acts as