Hello everyone,
I have been a longtime lurker here on the forums. I have decided to release my AI mod. Below are the current release notes.
Enhanced AI
Author: EsteGringo
Version: 0.9.6
Last Updated: December 3rd, 2023
This is a project to make the AI more interesting and competitive. It is usable on both land and sea maps. It is not setup for Archipelago yet, but it will be.
This is an open source project by its nature, so you are free to do as you will with it. If you want to use code from this, give me credit for what you take from this project.
Special Thanks: Felix Hermansson from back in the day.
Some Main Features:
It will cross the sea, land troops, and attack you.
It will use battleships.
Ships will patrol the seas.
It builds walls.
The AI uses church techs and units now.
The AI will use special units. For example, Germans will train Settler Wagons, the Dutch will train Blue Guards, and Ottomans will train Nizam Fusiliers.
Card selection has been modified so more upgrade cards are used.
The AI no longer cheats by getting extra resources.
Upcoming Features and Fixes:
New base building patterns for the AI.
Make warships more aggressive.
Fix the minor bugs involving island invasions. Sometimes invading units stay on the coast for awhile, for example.
Help the AI be able to rush more without the help of extra resources or unit cards.
Allow the AI to make new bases on other islands for water maps.
General refinements to the military and economic strategies.
Better adjustments to the card selection behavior.
Fix the issue where French do not seem to want to research their grenadiers at the church.
Find out why the Ottomans do not select the infinite Sipahi cards.
You may find this mod in the mod browser in the game or you may go to this link: Mods Single - Age of Empires
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I’m going to have fun making this play against the Assertive Seawall AI in all kinds of configurations. I’ll set all handicaps to 1.0 to keep the odds equal. I love bot vs bot games (not only in this game, but, like, in chess, for example)
PS: if you are Locura, I am still interested in knowing what caused your transporting issue and how you fixed it ^.^
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I’m curious what the result will be! I have no idea how mine performs without handicap. EsteGringo’s AI is going to be in for a few surprises, I hope!
I’m sorry to disappoint you, but I am not him.
You are going to play two different types of modded AIs against each other in the same AoE3 DE game? How do you use two different types of AIs in the same game in AoE3? We have a small group of players building different AIs and I would love to try that myself as well.
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There’s a whole group of you? 
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Yes, there are three of us in our small group whom are working on AIs. I have not seen the code of the other two projects yet, so I cannot say how theirs would differ from mine, but I would definitely like to test my AI against other AIs at some point if that is really possible in AoE3DE.
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It’s fine. I was asking out of pure curiosity anyway, since I’m not actively modding anything anymore.
About the AI vs AI game, the basic idea is to put the two mods in separate folders and override two of the already existing default AI scripts with the “loaders” of the two mods.
You can do it in any way you like, as long as you are 100% sure the two mods’ files don’t overlap. If that makes sense.
Here’s how I do mine:
├── 📁 mods
│ ├── 📁 local
│ │ └── 📁 Assertive vs Enhanced
│ │ └── 📁 game
│ │ └── 📁 ai
│ │ ├── 📁 assertive
| | | ├── (assertive seawall ai files)
│ │ │ ├── 📄 aicore.xs
| | | ├── 📄 aiglobals.xs
│ │ │ └── (...)
│ │ ├── 📁 enhanced
| | | ├── (enhanced ai files)
│ │ │ ├── 📄 aicore.xs
| | | ├── 📄 aiglobals.xs
│ │ │ └── (...)
│ │ ├── 📄 P2 AI placeholder handicapped.xs
│ │ └── 📄 P3 AI placeholder handicapped.xs
│ ├── 📁 subscribed
P2 AI placeholder handicapped.xs and P3 AI placeholder handicapped.xs contain some modified code based on aiLoaderStandard.xs + aiMain.xs to make sure the files are loaded from assertive and enhanced, not from core. I’m pretty sure those placeholder files are unused in the unmodded game so I decided to use them for testing. Now, all that remains to do is to create a scenario based on any map (I like New England since it is extremely feature-rich) and load the placeholder files to that scenario.
And now, time for the self-promotion 
Since you’re so many in your group (believe me, 3 AI modders, that’s a whole crowd because AI modders are so rare), it would be so fantastic if you guys could share your knowledge ^.^ I’m trying to write a guide about AI modding: Getting Started - AOE3 AI Scripting Guide
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Should’ve knows that’s where this was going 
You load up your test on New England, but I’ll be looking forward to an Amazon test!
Hola, solo para informarte que la IA con las facciones africanas (Etíopes y Hausa) no mejoran sus unidades a Elite, campeona y legendaria del campamento de guerra por mas que lleguen a V
Thank you! I will try that out!
En serio? Esta bien, lo arreglare. Japon, China, y India deberian estar un poco mejor que antes. Les permiti investigar aun mas tecnologias que la IA no estaba usando antes por alguna razon. Gracias.
P.S. - Por este razon, la version no esta 1.0 aun. 
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Lo probe y todos llegaron a ser legendarios. Cual mapa usaste, cuantos jugadores habia, y cuales civilizaciones se usaban? @IvanZvania
jugué en Grandes llanuras y en Llanuras húngaras. Usé los rusos, aliado otomano y como enemigo etíopes e italianos. en las dos partidas Etiopía llegaba a V sin mejorar sus unidades aun estando en dificultad Difícil. seguiré chequeando en otros mapas a ver como se comporta la IA. Muchas gracias por tomarme en cuenta 
@IvanZvania, desactivaste todas las demás modificaciones de AI, correcto? Además, recibes un mensaje del primer AI cuando inicias el juego? Si no, eso significa que la AI no está activada.
Me sucedió solo una vez y luego todo normal como tiene que ser. Gracias
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