how to get AI work? - OpenTTD 0.7.2-RC1

[LoWang]

Hello, how can I make the noAI start in the game? There is no settings about when they should start after player as it was before. I have set three random ai players in the options, but no company besides mine starts even after some time. I have allowed AI in multiplayer, but it does not start there either. Is that time longer or something's wrong and the AI does not work?

[Yexo]

Hello, how can I make the noAI start in the game? There is no settings about when they should start after player as it was before. I have set three random ai players in the options, but no company besides mine starts even after some time. I have allowed AI in multiplayer, but it does not start there either. Is that time longer or something's wrong and the AI does not work?

You can change the delay between the start of Ais in the AI configure window. You can find it in the main menu. The default is 2 years / 1 year / half year, depending on your difficulty level.

[LoWang]

aha you mean the configure button under the AI settings window! It's not easy to find:) Thx

[Dustin]

Hello, how can I make the noAI start in the game? There is no settings about when they should start after player as it was before. I have set three random ai players in the options, but no company besides mine starts even after some time. I have allowed AI in multiplayer, but it does not start there either. Is that time longer or something's wrong and the AI does not work?

There are two other ways:

#1. create a script called "game_start.scr" in the scripts directory of OpenTTD and add a line for every AI you want to start.

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start_ai Name_Of_AI

#2. hit the ` key and type the same thing in the console.

If you do this, you can't configure the AI at all. It will run with the defaults (this had me confused for quite a while!). It will also "overrun" any AI's you setup to start in the AI config window on the start screen.

-Dustin

[Yexo]

You can configure the AIs, but you'll have to do so on the same line, with
stat_ai <ainame> <ai_settings>
<ai_settings> is a list of settingname=value,settingname2=value2 pairs.

[LoWang]

Thanks. Actually it took me some time to figure out that there actually isn't any AI in the game when I just download it and play:) I think this should be more clearly said for example in the AI settings window, something like "no AI found, download some from the online content offering".

[Chruker]

yeah

How about a warning when you start a game with computer players and there are no AI's available. If there are some AIs available it could check if they are allowed to start (based on other settings and the info the AI provides in the info.nut file)

[Yexo]

yeah

How about a warning when you start a game with computer players and there are no AI's available. If there are some AIs available it could check if they are allowed to start (based on other settings and the info the AI provides in the info.nut file)

How about the fact that there already is a warning as soon as an AI starts when you have none.