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ORIGINAL: janh

- You said that assigned AI air units will pick bases in the sequence in the list:  Does this mean if they will not pick out the ones that are in range of the enemy (and best out of range of his assets), but populate them in sequence, i.e. it is possible that squadrons will end up useless if there is a base on the list that is out of range?  (for simplicity: http://www.matrixgames.com/forums/tm.asp?m=2274569#)

IN SEQUENCE AND YES THEY CAN END UP IN THE WRONG PLACE

- How will AI behave, if two scripts are active at a given point that both will request the same (a) LCU, air unit, or (b) say both try to set of a large-max 4 CV TF (assuming there are only 4 available)? Will it be simply the first script in the scripting list gets them, but the 2nd hijacks them and puts them elsewhere?  Or does the first reserve them, and the 2nd simply quit since it is not finding enough forces?  Or does AI do some risk-gain assessment to assign them to the most useful of both scripts?

1ST SCRIPT IN LIST WHICH IS WHY A LOT OF THE KB SCRIPTS ARE HIGH ON THE LIST AND A LOT OF LATER SCRIPTS ARE SET TO MIN SIZE - AI DOES NOT RISK/GAIN UNLESS I SET THE CV TF TO BE THE AMPHIB LEAD - IF I DO THAT THEN WITHOUT THE CV TF THE SCRIPT DOES NOT FIRE - I TEND NOT TO USE THAT FOR JAPANESE SCRIPTS BECAUSE THE EARLY WAR OPPOSITION IS USUALLY ACCEPTABLE AND I DONT WANT SCRIPTS TO FAIL AS THE AI MUST BE IN MULTIPLE THEATRES AT THE SAME TIME

- Ending scripts:  I would like to create a script that goes "dead" or "defense" not upon fall of a base, or a on certain end date, but that can get stopped also by losses (air/naval/LCU) or lack of supply?  Or ideally, also but counting enemy at the assault base(s) (say "dead" if > threshold number of planes)?  Can you improvise something like that within the present scripting language?  Or will this be a case for the wish-list?

NOT POSSIBLE

- Also, if I understand correctly "chaining scripts" only works for a one-to-one link, right?  There is no way that one script may depend on more than 1 previous one?  But more then 1 next script may depend on the same previous one, right? So I could use one "status script",  that could control (start or not) more than 1 follow up (kind of a supervising instance for a set of campaign scripts)?

1 TO MANY YES - MANY TO 1 NO - I USE TRIGGER SCRIPTS A LOT E.G. IF BASE X FALLS THEN SCRIPT Y ACTIVATES

- Starting scripts:  Is there a way to add scripts, that have a random starting probability (but defined date)?  For example take "Midway", and give it only a certain chance to start (and cancel other scripts that may interfere/request same units)?  Can this be done, or is the only random here the variant AI picks at scenario start?

NO ITS DONE AT THE MACRO LEVEL OF SCRIPTS BEING SELECTED

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ORIGINAL: Andy Mac

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ORIGINAL: PaxMondo

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ORIGINAL: Andy Mac

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Andy, can you clarify this just a bit?

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ORIGINAL: Andy Mac

This is the AI debugger extension it creates the AI debug file

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ORIGINAL: PaxMondo

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ORIGINAL: Andy Mac

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Andy, can you clarify this just a bit?