What is the progress on border gore?

[Tdrr 27]

While the game looks objectively amazing, by the end of this months play through, the map was a total mess (see image below). Lithuania is surrounded by vassals but for some reason has an exclave in northern Greece. Poland owns prussia and modern Poland, but for some reason has two vassals separating it. The Rhineland and modern day Netherlands is a mess. And altogether the map is littered with vassals, enclaves and exclaves.

I believe this could be fixed relatively easily with the following:

1. Ai can only annex provinces which it borders, or which border the sea (so that Ai can spread beyond its own continent)

2. Ai will simply be less likely to annex provinces which it does not border.

3. Monarchies will be extremely unlikely to demand vassalization, and will instead prefer to directly annex or extract tribute so the new AI peace deal order would be:

## PEACE TREATY -> AI -> ORDER

0 == TAKE LAND
1 == DEMAND VASSALIZATION
2 == DEMAND SUBJECT TRANSFER
3 == DEMAND RELIGION CONVERSION
4 == DEMAND GOVERNMENT CHANGE
5 == DEMAND GOLD
6 == LIBERATE CIVS
7 == DEMAND WAR REPARATIONS
8 == DEMAND HUMULIATE

  AI_PEACE_ORDER_CHANCE: 85,
            AI_PEACE_ORDER_CHANCE2: 15,
            
            AI_PEACE_ORDER: [0, 2, 3, 5, 2, 7, 8, 4, 6],
            AI_PEACE_ORDER2: [1, 3, 2, 0, 5, 4, 6, 7, 8],

Or maybe this would make border gore worse. Hopefully when the game is released the AI will work better.

[AmericanLiberia 73]

Great idea. Up

[Banana 90]

On 9/25/2024 at 7:15 PM, Tdrr said:

While the game looks objectively amazing, by the end of this months play through, the map was a total mess (see image below). Lithuania is surrounded by vassals but for some reason has an exclave in northern Greece. Poland owns prussia and modern Poland, but for some reason has two vassals separating it. The Rhineland and modern day Netherlands is a mess. And altogether the map is littered with vassals, enclaves and exclaves.

I believe this could be fixed relatively easily with the following:

1. Ai can only annex provinces which it borders, or which border the sea (so that Ai can spread beyond its own continent)

2. Ai will simply be less likely to annex provinces which it does not border.

3. Monarchies will be extremely unlikely to demand vassalization, and will instead prefer to directly annex or extract tribute so the new AI peace deal order would be:

## PEACE TREATY -> AI -> ORDER

0 == TAKE LAND
1 == DEMAND VASSALIZATION
2 == DEMAND SUBJECT TRANSFER
3 == DEMAND RELIGION CONVERSION
4 == DEMAND GOVERNMENT CHANGE
5 == DEMAND GOLD
6 == LIBERATE CIVS
7 == DEMAND WAR REPARATIONS
8 == DEMAND HUMULIATE

  AI_PEACE_ORDER_CHANCE: 85,
            AI_PEACE_ORDER_CHANCE2: 15,
            
            AI_PEACE_ORDER: [0, 2, 3, 5, 2, 7, 8, 4, 6],
            AI_PEACE_ORDER2: [1, 3, 2, 0, 5, 4, 6, 7, 8],

Or maybe this would make border gore worse. Hopefully when the game is released the AI will work better.

If you look at his more recent video timelapses, you can see the AI got much better.

[Tdrr 27]

20 hours ago, Banana said:

If you look at his more recent video timelapses, you can see the AI got much better.

Yeah it has significantly improved, the addition of sandbox mode also means we can clean up any border gore ourselves.

[YouravaragebrazilianAoCfan 242]

2 is good so it would be less likely but possible 1 would be bad as ever heard of the teutonian orders borders?