Trying to create a base from scratch through triggers

#1 Sep 4, 2010

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Hey I am trying to create a base building AI for my enemy using triggers. Would someone mind looking through this trigger and letting me know what's wrong with it? I'm getting a trigger took too long to execute error right now :(

        General - Repeat (Actions) forever
            Actions
                General - Wait for (Conditions), checking every 1.0 Game Time seconds
                    Conditions
                        (Larva count for player 2, counting Queued Or Better) > 0
                General - If (Conditions) then do (Actions) else do (Actions)
                    If
                        (Player 2 Supplies Used) == (Player 2 Supplies Limit)
                        (Overlord count for player 2, counting In Progress) > 0
                    Then
                        General - Wait for (Conditions), checking every 1.0 Game Time seconds
                            Conditions
                                (Player 2 has at least 100 and at least 0) == true
                        Unit Group - Pick each unit in (Larva units in death owned by player 2 matching Excluded: Missile, Dead, Hidden, with at most 1) and do (Actions)
                            Actions
                                Unit - Order (Picked unit) to (Larva - Morph to Overlord) (Replace Existing Orders)
                    Else
                        General - If (Conditions) then do (Actions) else do (Actions)
                            If
                                (Drone count for player 2, counting Queued Or Better) <= 11
                            Then
                                General - Wait for (Conditions), checking every 1.0 Game Time seconds
                                    Conditions
                                        (Player 2 has at least 50 and at least 0) == true
                                Unit Group - Pick each unit in (Larva units in death owned by player 2 matching Excluded: Missile, Dead, Hidden, with at most 1) and do (Actions)
                                    Actions
                                        Unit - Order (Picked unit) to (Larva - Morph to Drone) (Replace Existing Orders)
                            Else
                Unit Group - Pick each unit in (Drone units in (Idle Units for player 2) owned by player Any Player matching Excluded: Missile, Dead, Hidden, with at most Any Amount) and do (Actions)
                    Actions
                        Unit - Order (Picked unit) to (Drone - Gather targeting Rich Mineral Field [60.00, 38.50]) (Replace Existing Orders)

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#2 Sep 4, 2010
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I can say that you'd get much better results if you made that chunk its own trigger with an event that fires on a periodic timer every 2 seconds instead of an infinite loop within some other trigger. Also it looks like you're micro managing the AI a little too much, or at least not as much as required. I've had great success for instance by giving the AI instructions using the actions under the AI header for say making a new overlord etc, let it pick the specific larva to use, no need to pick which one yourself. Can't remember the specific instruction off the top of my head but it was basically along the lines of 'tell the AI to build an overlord' and it'll deal with picking which larva at which hatchery to do it. Same goes for any unit, even when it means morphing one unit to another, about the only limitation would be telling it to build a unit that it doesn't have the required structure already available to do so.

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#3 Sep 5, 2010

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@BumpInTheNight: Go

Cool thanks. I've changed it to something like this:

    Events
        Timer - aiTimer expires
    Local Variables
    Conditions
    Actions
        General - While (Conditions) are true, do (Actions)
            Conditions
                (Player 2 Supplies Used) >= ((Player 2 Supplies Limit) - 1)
            Actions
                General - Wait for (Conditions), checking every 1.0 Game Time seconds
                    Conditions
                        (Player 2 Minerals) >= 100
                Unit - Order all units in (Larva units in death owned by player 2 matching Excluded: Missile, Dead, Hidden, with at most 0) to (Larva - Morph to Overlord) (Replace Existing Orders)

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