8 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
Dan Albert
be69d17345 Move Flight and its related components out of gen. 2021-10-22 11:30:28 -07:00
Dan Albert
edf95ea9fb Dedup purchase requests.
Since the theater commander runs once per campaign action, missions that
do not have aircraft available may be checked more than once a turn.
Without deduping requests this can lead to cases where the AI buys
dozens of tankers on turn 0.

Fixes https://github.com/dcs-liberation/dcs_liberation/issues/1470
2021-08-01 15:17:43 -07:00
Dan Albert
c65ac5a7cf Move mission range data into the aircraft type.
The doctrine/task limits were capturing a reasonable average for the
era, but it did a bad job for cases like the Harrier vs the Hornet,
which perform similar missions but have drastically different max
ranges. It also forced us into limiting CAS missions (even those flown
by long range aircraft like the A-10) to 50nm since helicopters could
commonly be fragged to them.

This should allow us to design campaigns without needing airfields to be
a max of ~50-100nm apart.
2021-07-17 16:34:13 -07:00
Dan Albert
c1d3c93dbb Speed up turn processing.
Run the expensive precondition check (package fulfillment) last.
2021-07-13 18:56:06 -07:00
Dan Albert
ccf6b6ef5f Check for available aircraft as task precondition.
This makes it so that the mission planning effects are applied only if
the package can be fulfilled. For example, breakthrough will be used
only if all the BAI missions were fulfilled, not if they will *attempt*
to be fulfilled.
2021-07-13 16:26:15 -07:00
Dan Albert
24f6aff8c8 Reduce mission planning dependence on Game. 2021-07-13 15:20:42 -07:00
Dan Albert
0a416ab758 Let the TheaterCommander manage front line stance.
This improves the AI behavior by choosing the stances non-randomly:

* Breakthrough will be used if the base is expected to be capturable and
  the coalition outnumbers the enemy by 20%.
* Elimination will be used if the coalition has at least as many units
  as the enemy.
* Defensive will be used if the coalition has at least half as many
  units as the enemy.
* Retreat will be used if the coalition is significantly outnumbers.

This also exposes the option to the player.
2021-07-12 21:12:02 -07:00
Dan Albert
783ac18222 Replace existing campaign planner with an HTN.
An HTN (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hierarchical_task_network) is
similar to a decision tree, but it is able to reset to an earlier stage
if a subtask fails and tasks are able to account for the changes in
world state caused by earlier tasks.

Currently this just uses exactly the same strategy as before so we can
prove the system, but it should make it simpler to improve on task
planning.
2021-07-12 13:02:23 -07:00