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Offline Bastardized

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Can you name an AI?
« on: October 27, 2014, 02:37:09 am »
It may seem insignificant, but I'd like to give nicknames to the AIs. AI 1 and AI 2 doesn't give them much of a personality. Is there a way to do this?

Also, I've encountered a few bugs. I don't know if they're worth reporting. Hackers don't register as science vessels in the bottom left search tool, spire translocators don't have a description, the sabotage tooltip says sabotage requires 10 hacking points while it requires 5. Also the default auto AI progress time is 30 minutes, not 5 as the tooltip says (I think I've seen someone mention this in a 2 years old thread).
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Offline Kahuna

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Re: Can you name an AI?
« Reply #1 on: October 27, 2014, 04:25:35 am »
There's no way to name the AIs. At least not that I know of.

All bugs are worth reporting. There's no bug that wouldn't be worth reporting so please go ahead http://www.arcengames.com/mantisbt/my_view_page.php.
« Last Edit: October 28, 2014, 01:47:08 am by Kahuna »
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Offline Bognor

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Re: Can you name an AI?
« Reply #2 on: October 27, 2014, 08:58:33 am »
AI 1 = Chris.

AI 2 = Keith.
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Offline Kahuna

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Re: Can you name an AI?
« Reply #3 on: October 27, 2014, 02:28:37 pm »
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if %diff%==max (
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) else (
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Offline Toranth

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Re: Can you name an AI?
« Reply #4 on: October 27, 2014, 04:40:55 pm »
You can, but only through editing the save files.  Changing the name of the AI doesn't change the AI Type or Difficulty.

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Offline Bastardized

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Re: Can you name an AI?
« Reply #5 on: October 28, 2014, 12:50:24 am »
Quote from: Toranth on October 27, 2014, 04:40:55 pm
You can, but only through editing the save files.  Changing the name of the AI doesn't change the AI Type or Difficulty.

Could you tell me how to do it? I feel it would make the game a lot better for me. I'm guessing humanity would have given these AIs some names. :p

I would have liked to have only one of them have the schizophrenic modifier too to make them a little more different from one another, but I'm guessing this would be harder to accomplish.
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Offline Toranth

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Re: Can you name an AI?
« Reply #6 on: October 28, 2014, 04:17:48 am »
Quote from: Bastardized on October 28, 2014, 12:50:24 am
Quote from: Toranth on October 27, 2014, 04:40:55 pm
You can, but only through editing the save files.  Changing the name of the AI doesn't change the AI Type or Difficulty.
Could you tell me how to do it? I feel it would make the game a lot better for me. I'm guessing humanity would have given these AIs some names. :p

I would have liked to have only one of them have the schizophrenic modifier too to make them a little more different from one another, but I'm guessing this would be harder to accomplish.
Just save the game uncompressed (it's under one of the options menus), then open it up under any text editor.
A few lines down, you'll see the names of the AIs as they currently are - "Raid Engine / Fortress King (Diff 8)" or whatever.  Just change that part (being careful not to change anything else) and away you go.

No idea if you can do anything about the schizo modifier, but I doubt it.  It's more likely to be a global option than a per-AI option.
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Offline Bastardized

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Re: Can you name an AI?
« Reply #7 on: October 28, 2014, 01:24:50 pm »
Ow...thanks. I thought they might be compressed, but I didn't know there was an option not to compress in game.

Sadly it doesn't change the AI waves warnings. I was hoping for something like "350 HAL-9000 Missile Frigates to Murdoch in 2.41". I guess I'll do without. At least one of them is a Fortress Baron. I'm not sure of the other AI Types yet , but they should be noticeably different.

The first game I've played, it didn't really feel like I was fighting two different AIs. That's why I wanted to give them more personality. =x
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Offline Zair

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Re: Can you name an AI?
« Reply #8 on: October 28, 2014, 08:56:19 pm »
Would be nice, but AI wave announcements never use the full name of the AI anyways, probably to keep all the warnings in the upper-left box as succinct as possible.

Next game I play, I'm gonna try my hand at naming the AIs for lulz.
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