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No Black Arks for the AI

-THIS MOD IS DISCONTINUED-

It might still function but you are better off not trying it. I havent got the time anymore to update my mods unfortunately, but they are up for grabs if anyone wants to continue them or make their own versions, anyone is allowed to do anything with any part of any mod I made.

This mod makes it so the Ritual of Mathlann's weight for rituals the AI may or may not perform is 0, meaning Dark Elves should not do it at all or at the very least very rarely compared to other rituals, given Dark Elf AIs dont really know how to use Black Arks properly.

Black Arks get cheaper units but without lord bonuses and such, and the AI does the ritual to get Black Arks on cooldown, so once every 15 turns or so. The AI sees that it can get more units cheaper on a black ark than on a foot lord so it takes the bargain but then doesnt transfer them to foot lords and just wanders about. If no black arks are killed by another faction, this means the dark elf AI will have 10 black arks by turn 150 and so on, and it will prioritise filling them up before it does its land armies. Eventually, it has no more money left to support its land armies as it amasses more and more black arks if none are killed.
This mod is an attempt at fixing that. It will only modify the AI and the Dark Elf player can still perform the ritual normally.

Its worked on my testing so far, but let me know if they are still making black arks somehow.

--NOTE WITH LATEST PATCH--
As of the latest patch CA really stepped it up and made important changes to how Black Arks work, making this mod kind of unnecessary, given the AI now uses Black Arks and it uses them well. I will keep it up in case someone wants to use it given it shouldnt require updates and so on, but its really not necessary and most of the description above is irrelevant now. CA fixed them up pretty well.