Playing multiplayer with AI?!

[Frawan]

I have a question (please answer fast if possible). I have TT Deluxe with the open source patch. I can easily connect to my other computer by LAN - but when I create a game - No AI copetitors enter the game - even if it is hardets difficulty and they are set to start immediately....
And its not so fun to play without any computer to play against..
I want to be able to play 2ppl vs. computer - is this possible??

[lucaspiller]

At the moment, no. It probably will be done eventually, but is rather a low priority.

[johnny2shoes]

At the moment, no. It probably will be done eventually, but is rather a low priority.

I too would like AI on multiplayer, I noticed this post from a while back http://www.tt-forums.net/viewtopic.php?t=15488

How stable is this method? I don't want to do it if it is likely to screw up every 5 minutes.

Thanks

[lucaspiller]

It will work fine, as long as no clients join the game. As (I think) I said there, all the clients try to control the AI players as well as the server so evil desyncs occur...

[bobingabout]

currently, thers no way to tell if a company is actually being played or not, so if you enable AI, all players other than player 1 will have AI trying to build things. as said before, all clients, thats human players other than the host, will have AI trying to control things.

[johnny2shoes]

ohh right ok, that could be a problem...

Surely this isn't a particularly hard problem to fix, some kind of flag added to let the computer know which companys to control and which to leave alone...

Anyway I read before that you said it was a low priority.

Thanks for the info

Steve