TSA Builder 1.2a - Major bugfix release

[AGT_Ishan]

Hello All Scripters!
I made a utility called "TSA Builder". It speeds up the process of making TSA rules by automatically generating them.
It accepts the settings for the tsa from the user and generates the code.




Comments and suggestions are welcome!

Edit 1:
I edited the program so that it would work properly. For details, see UnfairestEel's post below

Edit 2:
The Above update made it even worse. The problem has now been fixed once and for all.

[UnfairestEel]

Geez this looks good!
One issue though:
The rules are in the wrong order for it to work properly.

For example instead of:
(defrule
(strategic-number sn-maximum-town-size == 40)
(not(enemy-buildings-in-town))
(goal g-tsa gv-on)
=>
(set-strategic-number sn-maximum-town-size 45)
)
(defrule
(strategic-number sn-maximum-town-size == 45)
(not(enemy-buildings-in-town))
(goal g-tsa gv-on)
=>
(set-strategic-number sn-maximum-town-size 50)
)
(defrule
(strategic-number sn-maximum-town-size == 50)
(not(enemy-buildings-in-town))
(goal g-tsa gv-on)
=>
(set-strategic-number sn-maximum-town-size 55)
)

it should be
(defrule
(strategic-number sn-maximum-town-size == 50)
(not(enemy-buildings-in-town))
(goal g-tsa gv-on)
=>
(set-strategic-number sn-maximum-town-size 55)
)
(defrule
(strategic-number sn-maximum-town-size == 45)
(not(enemy-buildings-in-town))
(goal g-tsa gv-on)
=>
(set-strategic-number sn-maximum-town-size 50)
)
(defrule
(strategic-number sn-maximum-town-size == 40)
(not(enemy-buildings-in-town))
(goal g-tsa gv-on)
=>
(set-strategic-number sn-maximum-town-size 45)
)

simply because (enemy-buildings-in-town) gets updated every pass, not every rule

[AGT_Ishan]

The rules are in the wrong order for it to work properly.

I'm working on it. Maybe it will help to put my loops in the reverse order. I'll look at the problem tonight if I can.
Visual Basic 2010 Express is not being very helpful with it's object-orientation.

Edit:
I fixed it! Try the new version. Thanks man!

[scripter64]

Great idea and nicely formatted

[Archon]

http://forums.aiscripters.com/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=2620

[AGT_Ishan]

Great idea and nicely formatted

Thanks

http://forums.aiscripters.com/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=2620

That's for military superiority as far as I can tell. If you're trying to say that I plagiarized (copied) it, you're wrong. I never even saw that thread before now.I respect what he made. I think his creation is quite good from the my P.O.V. as I do not even know any C# or C++ . All I know is Visual Basic which I learned on my own. Some M.S.D.N. Documentation is all you need

On the other hand, if you're saying that these two are similar, then I agree with you fully

BTW: I'd like to break the ice between us.

[Finaldeath]

Might be worth noting that with User Patch (where all the cool kids are) there are ways to do what you've setup here in a few rules for any amount of TSA size.

Not to say you can't develop nice tools for other bits of an AI perhaps (which is perhaps what Archon was getting at), but that repetitive rules like these for TSA are not needed as much with UP.

[AGT_Ishan]

Might be worth noting that with User Patch (where all the cool kids are) there are ways to do what you've setup here in a few rules for any amount of TSA size.

I know... ER told me that shortly after I posted it.

Not to say you can't develop nice tools for other bits of an AI perhaps (which is perhaps what Archon was getting at), but that repetitive rules like these for TSA are not needed as much with UP.

Can you give me some ideas please?

[Archon]

Can you give me some ideas please?

You can do a military comparison, as in the thread I linked.

[Finaldeath]

Mmm...maybe...

Market buy/sell rules
Enemy army composition tallying into categories for counter unit production
Additional farm rules

Then again a few of these can be again more easily be done in a few UP rules.