SynTrans - A Synaptic Network AI

[11Runner]

I am proud to presend my NoAI AI, SynTrans!

SynTrans stands for Synaptic Transportation. It can build massive road and aircraft networks. Will probably never implement train support... but oh well The AI is very good with Road and Air.

The AI features many improvements from its origionation, RoadAI:

1. Added Aircraft Support
2. Added Save/Load support (may be a buggy feature)
3. Better vehicle management
4. Better station placement (thanks GeekToo)
5. Various Bug fixes
6. And many other small improvements

--The Goals (in order of priority)--
1. To make a stable AI that works as intended in any situation
2. To make an AI that builds more realistically and is fun to play with
3. To make the AI extremely fast
4. To make the AI a good competitor

Keep in mind this AI depends on SuperLib v13.

If you find any bugs in the AI, please send them in. Feature requests are also appreciated

My code is free and Opensource, use may use any portion or change it to your hearts content!

[Zuu]

Hello, you got two spelling errors in on your info.nut:

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The maximum number of seprate tranport networks for the roads SynTrans may build

seprate => separate
tranport => transport

Tip: Many text editors suitable for editing code also have a spell checker for comments and literal strings.


The AI itself, I don't have had time to test yet. But I'm sure will do as I really like that you have taken the network approach instead of just doing point to point connections.

[11Runner]

It is obvious I am rushing way to much in my coding. Good call

[Kogut]

small problem

[11Runner]

Fixed the above listed problems (as well as a couple of bugs I found ).

You may also notice I am starting the train support if you look at the source code

[Zuu]

Your rail stub is about five times longer than the rail stub in CluelessPlus (as I only got one rail file)

On a more serious note, I think you should add SynTrans to bananas.

[11Runner]

On a more serious note, I think you should add SynTrans to bananas.

I will do this as soon as I can. I just wasnt sure it was time just yet

[Kogut]

eGRVTS in 1710 result in problems as all vehicles are articulated.

[11Runner]

Hello,

Attatched is version 3. Sorry it took so long (I am very busy )

Here is an incomplete list of the improvements (and yes, the list will always be incomplete because I don't bother to keep track of the changes)

1.

eGRVTS in 1710 result in problems as all vehicles are articulated.

The AI now builds those vehicles and the appropriate stations
2. Fixed a few minor bugs
3. Slightly better connection building

Also, my rail stub is so long because I plan on adding somewhat extensive train support to my AI (It will be using ro-ro stations and junctions mentioned on the OTTD wiki manual, all in a network. I just wanted to start with road vehciles to alvoid confusion as I learn NoAI )

[11Runner]

Here is SynTrans v4.

All I did was:

1. Update to SuperLib v15 (and did my things with the stuff I wanted to do with it)
2. Further developed train stub (not complete)

[Brumi]

Good to see that development is going on, I'm eagerly waiting for train support

Anyway, in my tests, your AI doesn't build aircraft. I start the game in 1950, and the plane limit is 20, might that be the case?

Unfinished roads are quite a common sight when using your AI:

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The AI log is full of messages like "Could not find a road vehicle to use!", although there are buses running on the roads, and I cheated to give your AI 'some' money, so money shouldn't be an issue now. I have the Generic Tram Set enabled, but anyway it's the default road vehicle set.

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I don't know if it makes a difference...

[11Runner]

Sorry, I dont get much time to test my AI myself, I am so busy these days

Anyway, here is the next release.

Anyway, in my tests, your AI doesn't build aircraft. I start the game in 1950, and the plane limit is 20, might that be the case?

Sorry about that. I broke my AI's ability to build aircraft with a new function I failed to test. It has been fixed in this release.

The AI log is full of messages like "Could not find a road vehicle to use!", although there are buses running on the roads, and I cheated to give your AI 'some' money, so money shouldn't be an issue now. I have the Generic Tram Set enabled, but anyway it's the default road vehicle set.

Part of the same aircraft bug it appears, but if you continue seeing those messages, let me know .

Unfinished roads are quite a common sight when using your AI

This is a known bug. I have taken various steps to preventing it from happening. It seems to never happen to me, I plan on fixing it (again) in the next release (the aircraft bug was more important and I didn't have enough time)

[11Runner]

Merry Christmas Everyone

Here is SynTrans v6. This release features the most improvements thus far:

* Speed improvements

* Bigger networks faster

* Smarter Aircraft Support

* Builds HQ (for supporting CityDomination )

* Many other small bugfixes

Bug reports and feature requests welcome!

Side Note: Does anyone know how to load an older version of a AI using the start_ai command? I would like to show you graphs of improvements in this release.

[Brumi]

You can use this for example:

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start_ai syntrans.5

[bman]

I get this error when it loads the AI:
"Your script made an error: couldn't find library 'util.superlib'"

I couldn't find any util.superlib file on the forums. Is there something I'm missing here?

[11Runner]

I was having the same issue too, but I assumed it was just my own misconfiguration. I suppose Zuu could have renamed the library or something. I will fix the problem as soon as possible. Thank you for the notice

[Zuu]

I suppose Zuu could have renamed the library or something.

Not as far as I'm concerned

[11Runner]

I get this error when it loads the AI:
"Your script made an error: couldn't find library 'util.superlib'"

I couldn't find any util.superlib file on the forums. Is there something I'm missing here?

Turns out my AI was trying to load SuperLib v15 Thank you for the report, it has now been fixed. You can find SynTrans v7 on bananas or the download link below

[Glaukon777]

Hi! First of all, I'd like to say that this is the best AI I've tried so far! So kudos for you on that. Now, this is the first crash I've run into:

[Zuu]

Fix:

Change line 236 from

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							raildir = Tile.TurnDirClockwise90Deg(Tile.GetDirectionToAdjacentTile(site, bridge), 1);

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							raildir = Direction.TurnDirClockwise90Deg(Direction.GetDirectionToAdjacentTile(site, bridge), 1);