Feature request - Stop AI Spending all the cash

[Item4369]

Hello
thanks for the hyperdrive update!

Please consider this feature request

The problem
AI advisors will spend all available money on gifts, ships etc and maintain a cash balance close to zero. This makes it impossible for the player to buy anything manually , which they will often want to do.

Players end up waiting ages for the required cash to be available, repeatedly getting "almost enough" before the AI spends it on something less important like a diplomatic gift. This is a very frustrating experience.

The only workaround at the moment is to turn the advisors off entirely and micromanage everything.


The solution
reserving some cash for the player's use while still allowing automated spending of any surplus.

A "target cash on hand" automation parameter could can be set by the player. If cash is below this level, AI will not purchase additional state ships, crash research, or diplomatic gifts, or costly treaties. Provided cashflow is positive, the required funds will be built up automatically and then the AIs can spend any excess.

I think this would be very easy to code.


Its not just me
There are numerous other threads on the board wth simialr complaints, eg:

• https://www.matrixgames.com/forums/view ... h#p4997167
• https://www.matrixgames.com/forums/view ... h#p5094929
• https://www.matrixgames.com/forums/view ... h#p5084283

Thanks

[fruitgnome]

With empire funding levels you can set the reserved money. The problem is that it is only changeable at policy settings. It should be set also at funding levels itself. The icon has only to be changed to a button.

[Item4369]

how do you set reserved money in empire funding levels?

i can see an option to reserve income at the top but that sounds like it just diverts money into your cash stockpile; it doesn't stop the advisor spending all the stockpile itself.

the income reservation tooltip says "percentage of your income that is left unspent thus building up a cash stockpile"

or am i missing something?

[fruitgnome]

Set the advisors only on suggest and if you have enough money you set advisors on auto.
Income reserved helps to stock money, test it by yourself.

[btd64]

I turn the advisor for those items off. And I do them manually....GP