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Universal AI for FotS

UAI for FotS

This is an update to TheHedgeKnight's Universal AI mod. Along with bugfixes and small tweaks, I made changes following UAI's design for Fall of the Samurai, mostly in the area of recruitment and building orders. This also includes Yarki's Reduced AI Cheating mod, merging them is the safest way to ensure they load correctly.

FotS Update:

AI recruits much better armies, especially focusing more on artillery. You'll see less of the full cavalry or melee armies.
AI focuses more on specialties, and also on critical buildings that bring significant improvements (tier 3 ports, tier 2 artillery, tier 3 dojo etc.)
AI is aware of the synergy between artillery and gunsmith (accuracy bonus)
AI military aggressiveness is increased, especially for major clans
AI defends its ports better
AI prioritizes critical technologies (kneel fire etc. )
AI does not choke its provinces with heavy taxes
Autoresolver balanced (militia do not suck so hard, winning ships take less damage)

Changes from UAI:
AI gives more importance to military strength in diplomacy.
AI should play a bit more safe in invasions (defend its regions more and attempt invasions when success is likely).
AI should defend its borders a bit more.
Chance for mission generation is reverted to vanilla, changes to diplomatic attitudes are removed (both are out of scope and may hurt compatibility with other mods).
AI is less fixated on lightships.
Tweaks to autoresolve calculation.
Some duplicate entries and typos fixed, many small tweaks to document.

You can find an experimental version aiming to prevent suicidal allegiance changes here: Universal AI with Increased Reliability

This is included in FotS Enhanced.


Credits:
The base of the mod comes from The Hedge Knight, who made the by far best AI mod for the game.

HedgeKnight's mod on TWC: https://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?440700-V2-5-U-Ai-Mod-Shogun-II-*Compatible-with-almost-any-other-mod-including-Darthmod-All-In-One-and-S2R*
MagicalSmalrusWalrusJones' UAI Revived: https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=322978208
Yarki's Reduced AI Cheating on TWC: https://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?519382-Yarkis-Reduced-AI-Cheating-Mod
on Workshop: https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2192894520

Plans & Issues:
AI technology priorities can be tweaked more.
Naval recruitment in FotS is worse than Shogun2 since the AI isn't aware of different classes of ships (i.e. difference between Kasuga and Kaiten). There might be a way to re-introduce ship classes, will look into it when I have the time. I need a better understanding of naval warfare in FotS before that though, if anyone has resources, that would help a lot.

If you have any additional feedback, or ideas about how to fix these issues, let me know.