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Hi all.

Lewin has a couple of things in his editor which he calls "AI Aggressiveness" and "Town Defense" Town defense is 0 to 100 and Aggressiveness is 0 to 200. For the town defense I usually go around 80 and Aggressiveness I usually put around 100, but does anyone know what they are set to? I really hate just typing in a number without knowing what the result will be.

I think Agressiveness defines the measure of defence if defence shall happen. If Agressiveness factor is set on a high value, AI player will send lots of troops against you when it gets attacked.

As I recognised Town Defence is a presumption value that determines whether AI player reacts or not, or it may mean a latency from getting attacked to defending. If Town Defence factor is set on a low value, AI won't defend for a certain time, no matter how high Agressiveness is.

I've tried this and put agressiveness to 120, instead of the usual 'standard'. What happened is that more groups of the AI attacked me when I attacked one of his groups. So my conclusion would be that the number is connected with a sertain amount of troops sent when getting attacked. I wouldnt know about town defence though.

I haven't done much research into these commands, but I'll tell you what I know:

- Town Defence sets how the AI will respond when you attack their buildings. It could be useful in a mission where you want the player to destroy the AI's buildings but you don't want the AI to send his troops to defend them. It might be a radius, e.g. defend buildings within 20 tiles of start position/army or something, I really don't know.
- AI Aggressiveness was never used in the original missions! It is in one mission but it is not enabled (they deleted the ! before the command so it wouldn't be processed) I think that's right anyway, it's on an old topic around here somewhere.... In the brief tests I did it seemed to effect how many troops the AI would send if you attack a group of soldiers. So if it is set to 0 then the AI will never come to aid soldiers being attacked, and if it is 200 they send every group they have as soon as a single soldier is being attacked.

However, unless you have a specific reason to modify these values I recommend you leave them as the defaults as that is what they are in 90% of the original missions.
I hope this helps.
Lewin.

Indeed it does! Thanks a lot, everyone! I was just wondering because it really didn't seem to make a diference what I put it on
I'll likely run some tests sometime.