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Fairplay AI
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Fairplay AI

Description
  • Overview
    Starting as a personal mod of mine for single player and multiplayer with friends, I thought I would upload it for anyone else to enjoy; it makes changes to the AI to play far more fair across the board, while still making sure that difficulty still matters. This doesn't make the AI harder, but the aim is to make the AI play fairer and to role play their part better alongside the player.

  • Features
    • Eliminates most of over the top cheats/bonuses for AI across all difficulty settings, now playing in line with the player's rules while still making difficulty matters and that the AI will use all it's features. On the higher difficulties the AI starts with a army boost to help them as the vanilla over the top cheats are gone, and also giving them a income multi boost to help prevent deficits and keep them on fairer terms with a player.

    • Improves AI personalities to be more in line with their descriptions.

    • Helps the AI stop spamming colonies; now, on higher difficulties, the AI will try for a more natural lead of colonies if able to do so and have a higher priority for where to colonise. Colonisers are abit more and scale better for Players and AI.

    • The AI focuses more on their own racial troops while also helping to stop mass dwelling unit spam. The AI will also try to lead by the number of military units it has based on it's difficulty and the number of units the strongest Human player has in comparison.

    • The AI is now more likely to raze colonies during wartime or to migrate their primary faction to new colonies when captured, unless, for example, if the AI is a Xenophile or a more Peaceful AI personality type. There are fewer penalties for doing so, and they are based more on personalities, meaning more factions stick to their primary species; they can still have alliances/treaties with other species.

    • Smaller changes and tweaks.

  • F.A.Q
    • Load Order
      Best results having it last in your load order.

    • Compatibility
      Tested and is working with Faction add-on mods, the
      DLC in Campaigns Mod and the Adventure Mod, among others, without known issues. I highly recommend them all, espcially the Adventure Mod and the faction-add on mods.

    • Issues/Suggestions
      The mod gets updated regularly; unsubbing/resubbing can also fix problems with Steam Workshop or by verifying the game files. Bugs can be posted in the comments, or preferably, you are welcome to DM me for any bugs or suggestions, and I'll do my best to see what I can do.

    • What's Next?
      For now, the mod is mostly feature-complete and polished without outstanding issues. However, I will keep balancing in mind and watch for any bugs relating to the mod.

      Originally posted by Atenvardo:
       
      Authors Note
      This mod was made for personal use, the icon and art are AI generated as I needed something placeholder for the mod. The mod tries creating a more immersive game play. I mainly use it with Vanilla or the "Adventure Mod". I uploaded it in case anyone else wanted to enjoy these changes too.

      I will keep the mod up-to-date and as compatible as possible while making necessary changes.

      Leave a like if it's also helpful for your experience. It truely is appreciated!

      Age of Wonders 4 - FairPlay AI Mod
      https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2979968862
35 Comments
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Aten  [author] 2 Jul @ 4:02pm 
@Myth - Awesome to hear, hope it makes it abit more fun, it did for me and my group. All the best (:
Myth 2 Jul @ 3:26pm 
Big fan of AoW4, decided to try Planetfall and give your mod a shot. I'll let you know how it goes!
Terrapin 29 Jun @ 3:08pm 
Thanks for the reply. I'll give it a shot.
Aten  [author] 29 Jun @ 2:10pm 
@Terrapin - It will still make some changes for a better experience in my opinion, as normal still gets some changes along with the other changes.

But give it a try if you like, if you’re playing normal and finding it fair then you may not need what’s in the description. All difficulties got some changes among the other listed changes (:
Terrapin 29 Jun @ 5:33am 
Do I need this mod if I'm just playing on normal? It seems most of the players that are using this mod are playing on extreme. Does the AI get enough of a boost on normal to make this mod necessary?
Aten  [author] 13 May @ 3:08pm 
@TtBennl, Hypnosis - Glad your both still finding some value in the mod (:
TTBeNnI 13 May @ 4:35am 
@Aten, thanks for keeping this mod alive!
Hypnosis 30 Apr @ 4:48pm 
Thanks for the update. I still use this mod.
Aten  [author] 17 Apr @ 6:10pm 
@Generic Brand - Updated, welcome to Dm for any other changes you notice, thanks again.
Aten  [author] 17 Apr @ 3:26am 
@Generic Brand - Hey thanks, anytime I love keeping them updated for the few of us left haha.

Oh my bad! I’ll update it again tomorrow, last update I was meant to change that back, I am still digging into the modding and was testing that to see if they pop more, but finding the right setting for forward bases still eludes me. Thanks for pointing that out, I’ll get that fixed tomorrow and push the update to fix that.

How are you finding the extreme difficulty? Should still be manageable?

There are changes that I am still tidying up , but I have a friend that helps in testing so it’s slow, I also have a note book of files to still check for some adjustments I’m looking for in the game. But most of my time goes to the AOW4 version.