Hello,

I've been editing the AI core dynamic library for a while. While my intention was to greatly enhance AI capabilities fine-tuning their decisions, I ended just fixing some big things not working.

Many features are already coded, and I mean, hundreds of hours of coding done by Amplitude devs with analysis, computations, and all the blackboard stuff, all of those was already there, but a single point of failure disabled full AI features.

I will cover and provide the code to fix it for:

1. AI non-military behemoths sitting idle.

2. AI not being able to support their invasion attempts with their "invader" small support ships, loaded with slugs and manpower modules.

3. AI not being able to search curiosities on their own systems.

1. The problem lies in how the behavior tree is built. Before moving to destination or doing the action, goes into a behavior subtree to try to attack things, and then guard. As a result, (non-military) behemoth will guard and ignore their destination and their actions.

DoFleetActionAtPosition.cs just reverses the order "move > do action > then all the on the node stuff".

GuardOneSystem.cs and AcademyDefensive.cs forces a fail on the action part, so it goes to the node stuff and finally guard, when they are already at the target node.

2. On AssistInvade.cs The problem is that the generator part responsible to find all front mission tasks (FindAllFrontMissionTasks method) is not working, not sure why doesn't work, maybe a cast issue, but I used a more generic alternative (FindAll method) and went into the same conditions afterwards.

3. On SearchAllColonies.cs generator, on the GetContexts part, responsible to check if there are curiosities in owned systems pending to be explored, it tries to access that analysis data from the AI player empire snapshot, but the data is held on the Snapshot Repository. I just added the service all and check the info there.

I provide my edited code, as well as the original disassembled code as reference, you can compare both with a merge/compare tool (IE WinMerge) to see the exact changes, and infer those into the source code.

The code files: ai-fixes.zip

Lastly, a legal disclaimer in the case it is needed: I give Amplitude and their collaborators full permission to use and modify my code if there's any intellectual property held into it, not covered by the game's terms of service.

Thanks for reading.

Wow, thanks a lot Ninakoru ! I'm sure that with the help of CyRob your fixes will make into game!