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v20.1 Improved Battle AI for Essentials v20.1 1.2.2

This resource pertains to version 20.1 of Pokémon Essentials.

Reviews 3.40 star(s) 3 reviews

Very cool script. I wanted to have something like that for a long time. I'm very curious what you will add in the future.

I have one question though:
Does it make sense to give a trainer SkillLevel over 100?
According to Essentials it would follow the same logic above >100.
I hope not, because otherwise it wouldn't make sense to give my champion skill level 255. At least 255 was always the upper limit you could set.
KRLW890
KRLW890
Yes, actually! In short, this script makes the AI more likely to choose moves the game sees as favorable, scaling with AI level.

The AI is split into two phases; determining scores for each move, and choosing a move based on those scores. For the first phase, there are basically only 4 skill levels, to determine whether the AI will favor more strategic moves (such as ones that raise stats, set weather, etc.) or if it'll just attack recklessly. In this first phase, there's no difference between a 100 and a 255 skilled opponent.

The second phase is where most of my changes apply. In base Essentials, if one move comes back with a score of 1 and another comes back with a score of 2, it'll choose the second move 2 out of 3 times. That's only a 66% chance to choose a move the AI has already determined to be twice as good. My script applies an exponent to these numbers before deciding, with the power being influenced by the opponent's skill level. In layman's terms, this means that lower skill levels may choose the better move 75% of the time, for example, while higher skill levels might choose the better move 98% of the time.

The AI was only designed with skill levels between 1-100, but numbers above 100 should still be more likely to choose better moves in the second phase than 100 skill opponents, even though the raw scores determined in the first phase stay the same. The only concern would be integer overflow, though I've already gone to some lengths to guard against in the script.
Plug-In has made the game skip the enemy trainers' turns and puts up an error whenever it's their turn.
KRLW890
KRLW890
Well that's not good. Could you post the error message and list what other plugins you're using?
This was a great adition to my game. This doesn´t fix every AI issue (the AI sometimes still trys to use moves like fake out after turn 1) but it makes the AI not fully stupid. Would recommand for everyone who wants their game to be instantly better.
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