0002987: AI spamming heroes to the exclusion of everything else

MantisBT - VCMI
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ID	Project	Category	View Status	Date Submitted	Last Update
0002987	VCMI	AI - Adventure Map	public	2018-08-03 00:24	2023-04-12 16:59

Reporter	tukkek
Assigned To	Warmonger
Priority	high	Severity	major	Reproducibility	have not tried
Status	acknowledged	Resolution	open
Platform	Linux	OS	Debian	OS Version	Buster (testing)
Product Version	0.99
Target Version		Fixed in Version

Summary	0002987: AI spamming heroes to the exclusion of everything else
Description	I'm playing my first scenario on VCMI and I must have seen the AI build two or three dozen heroes. I know there's some legitimate strategies that involve spamming heroes but it seems clear to me that this is a problem with the AI. Most of these heroes had only one stack of units, with one unit in it. I think maybe two or three had a token army with maybe a 20-sized stack. Practically all others (80% or 90%) had one stack of 1 unit with them. When I reach their town, it is literally unguarded so I walk in and take it - only to see that there are close to 250 units not hired. Meanwhile the AI was recruiting three of four heroes per turn and giving them no units at all (which funnily enough kept me busy defeating a handful of them each turn so I had trouble reaching the castle lol). I'm playing on normal difficulty but even then this barely sounds like any semblance of proper behavior, so I must assume it's a bug. The AI didn't even bother to leave one of the 30 heroes with 1 stack of 1 unit home to guard the castle, so I just walked right in after defeating 3-4 heroes per turn for several turns in a row.
Steps To Reproduce	I played the first scenario on the single-player game list on Normal difficulty. Said AI was the blue player on the island to the south, still on the surface map. Data files are from GOG's Heroes 3 Complete.
Additional Information	Some heroes seemed to stay in place and do nothing for many turns at a time, but most of them were moving about (probably not doing much at all with their 1 unit's worth of an army). I have tagged this issue as major/high priority because honestly I might as well have played this game with no AI at all. It was absolutely worthless and really, pretty much as good as having no AI at all. This might sound a little bit dire but other than that I'd like to take the opportunity to thank everyone involved in VCMI - the game runs like a charm, from installation to the launcher to the game itself, it's more feature-complete than the original version and I'm sure these outstanding issues will be fixed soon enough! I'm very proud to see how far the project has come and given a few minor tweaks I could easily call this the best open-source game engine remake bar none other! Thanks you so much for all the effort!
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Date Modified	Username	Field	Change
2018-08-03 00:24	tukkek	New Issue
2018-08-03 09:44	Warmonger	Note Added: 0007611
2018-08-03 09:44	Warmonger	Assigned To	=> Warmonger
2018-08-03 09:44	Warmonger	Status	new => confirmed
2018-08-03 09:44	Warmonger	Note Edited: 0007611	bug_revision_view_page.php?bugnote_id=7611#r3507
2018-08-03 13:00	tukkek	Note Added: 0007612
2023-01-26 12:20	Povelitel	Note Added: 0008464
2023-04-12 16:59	Ivan	Status	confirmed => acknowledged

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