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In article <DMDAs...@wardrobe.demon.co.uk>,
Frugal <fru...@wardrobe.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>wphi...@VNET.IBM.COM (William F. Phillips (752-5744)) writes:
>
>>I have a little network of two computers on which I've been
>>playing C&C.  During the games I've noticed that the two AI players
>>never build bases which takes some of the fun out of it.  Is there
>>a flag or a patch that will force the AI players to build bases?
>>(I have bases turned on on the selection panel and the humans
>>can build bases.)
>
>The AI does not build bases because it does not know how to.

Mainly because this sort of stuff is bloody hard to do - it involves
the computer player knowing about buildings, about which to build in
what order and why ( if you build barracks and comms centre first, you
might not be able to afford a refinery, but if you can afford it you
have to trade off a quicker income against the fact the you can't
build troops yet, against the fact you might not be near
opponents... )
 
In addition it would require them to be able to pick troops to build -
note that in the game, they send preset force packages against you
repeatedly until you wipe out the harvesters and then the AI simply
starts cheating [IMHO] and building loads of troops, way too fast
[IMHO] (amount defined I think by the level) but keeps them close to
his base to defend it.

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