Modding Out Diplomacy

That's great news! I've checked the SE:V wiki under AI but really have no clue where to begin. Any advice on what to do?

That would be perfect. Constant warfare is exactly what I want to see. As long as the anger levels apply to one another as well, and not just to me. Where can I find/how do I change the anger settings? Is there an AI-editing FAQ I should be reading somewhere so I don't clutter up the boards with questions everyone else has heard a thousand times?

Okay, so I've used the ScriptParser.exe to edit Script_AI_Politics.txt and changed line 0880 from

set final_anger := (total_anger_sev + 50)

to

set final_anger := (total_anger_sev + 550)

There's a line just a little after that that states

if (final_anger > 150) then
set final_anger := 150

which I'm guessing means that with my little addition, nations should automatically default to max anger. The thing is, I'm not sure if I went about this correctly at all. I just looked for "anger" in the file, and saw the variable final_anger. I thought that if I change this to something really high, then wars should be guaranteed, right?

The thing is, I started a new game after making this change, and diplomacy seems exactly the same. I'm guessing I need to recompile the AI, but a) I could be wrong about that and b) I don't know how to do it. Also, do I need to recompile the AI for each mod I use? I usually play Captain Kwok's balance mod, for what it's worth.

Any help would, of course, be very greatly appreciated.

EDIT: Sorry about double posting, all. I just realized that I should have edited my last post instead. Won't happen again.

It worked! Thanks for the help, Captain Kwok. Now onto an eternal war between 20 empires. Incidentally, I followed the SE5 wiki link you posted, but all it displayed was a generic page stating that there's no text for the topic. Not a big deal, since it's working now. Thank you again, Captain, for both the mod and the help.

I'm currently enjoying my everyone vs. everyone game right now, and I doubt I'm good enough at micromanagement to handle a war with everyone allied against me. If only I could watch the other battles, too. Oh well. Thanks for the help, all.

On a side note, occasionally when I play, the game will freeze during one of the computer player's turns. It almost never happens if I save my game before ending my turn, and almost always happens if I fail to save. Has anyone experienced this? I read on the forums that having an undersized page file can cause problems, so I upped mine to 8GB, but no difference.