Regulas sniping distance should be pretty easy to dial-in.  Is the rule: Don't use snipe if enemy demigod is within a given range (say about twice the normal ranged attack distance) unless the close target is low health? 

That translates to a pretty simple if statement and will probably have good results.   If it doesn't use snipe during the fight it will be available for the end of the fight to shoot the running away target (unless another weaker target is visible in range).   Tracker will probably help to keep the presumably damaged target visible so it can use snipe on that target.

We can try making attack one of the overrides when flags are in the AI's advantage and no enemy demigods are near it and its below a certain war rank.   I'll test this out.  This might get it focused on creep waves for a little bit, but it will likely follow the creep wave into a tower and get itself in trouble.  Rook or farming in general will probably be difficult to pull off.

On Flag Capture.  Are you saying it didn't recapture the portals promptly? or that it not defend it vigorously in the middle ranks?

On re-capture - At warrank 7 and above it should ignore enemy checks and pursue its target flag until its low on health.  Though plenty of things can probably sidetrack it along the way this should make it more aggressive later in the game.    On a map with even number of portals the AI will always seek to balance the portal flags, so if you take one the next time a demigod gets free and is at full health it will select a portal flag to capture.

At warrank 8 and above the 'portal threatened' teleport action is unlocked, so now the AI will teleport in when you get to about the gold flag.  Prior to this the generic flag, tower, etc threatened action is running which is a lot less sensitive.  On a 3 ai team usually 0-1 will respond fast enough for the generic team asset threatened.   The portal threatened one has a wide range, so on the same 3 ai team you will likely get 2-3 ai's to teleport in to defend.  Plus later game they are more likely to have teleport scrolls.  At 7 a couple of them are probably not spending any cash to save for troop upgrades at 8. 

I'll take a look at capture lock action.  It must not inspect the flag its locking and just applies a new lock whenever it can.

but its ok if reg does that on low hp.  Like a 300 hp ai is out of my range, but I could kill with a snipe.  I need to snipe. 

sedna walked in at start and used silence - then I killed her.  She needs to learn when to cast silence.

For possible implementation in Sedna AI, a short list of Silence-worthy instances as I see them, to whomever it may concern:

(1) At the very beginning of big badass skirmishes/ganks: it is worth it, since the opposing party cannot use their alpha nukes (while yours can) for 3-5s. Moreover, it lowers enemy morale. Most people (experienced players included) hesitate and prefer to stop advancing while silenced, even if they have 8k hp intact.

(2) When the enemy has ~1/3 hp left to prevent sigiling/shielding+porting out. It can be as high as 3k later mid game+. 

(3) Escape option: frequently used as a poor man's version of Oak's Shield III + tp out. Personally, I don't really like the concept of waiting for all the gankers to come close, Silence, then tp out praying they don't mash some fast skill hotkeys all the time and don't score some big-ass AA crits (I'm talking about Silence I here, II-III are safe, of course). Sigiling and running is usually safer. However, it is sometimes really worth it as a cover for wounded-and-running teammate/yourself. What are they going to do, really? AA you to death on the move?

(4) Securing a lock. Silence + lock can save the day sometimes.

Well, now hedgie will probably come here and criticize my inane babblings, but if it is of any use to you, Peppe and miriyaka - you are welcome 

Is it possible that allied AI be able to detect friendly monks in a certain range (25 maybe) and prevent teleportation back to the crystal if there are no enemy demigods in that same range, but instead move to a monk (and behind tower)?

This would have other advantages: i could then leave monks guarding a tower tower instead of AI and the AI could then retreat to it, allowing a monk to help out a lane as appose to following AI around.

atm when demigods teleport they take my monk back to the crystal(ie it moves till it is within its GuardReturnRadius) and leaves an area where a second friendly demigod could use the help.

I think I noticed that there is only 1 build for rook (unless I'm remembering it wrong) currently in the code (which is your basic tower/slam rook).  I'm wondering if we should add in a few other rook builds (hammer slam and speed rook).  I'm not really all that sure how useful those builds would be, though.  I was also thinking about adding a blood soaked oak build as a throw back to boxleitner.   I think that build might be easily utilized by the AI. 

Did you save the replay or game log of this?  No matter the game situation the AI should buy currency 1 and creeps.  Everything else is based on if they have the cash available, but currency + 4 troop upgrades are specifically saved for and a nightmare AI should easily hit its save targets before the warrank level to buy them comes up.

Sedna's silence is still the default decision making, which for just about every skill is fire at will whenever it is ready.  I'll add some conditions on it.  I think one or two of the ones you posted earlier in the thread will be easy to add.

Version J, has some changes in already for reg.  What do you mean by wrong on range?  Snipe usage in 'i' is fire at will.  J will have fire at will unless a enemy demigod is close.   It will also fire snipe anytime it can get a kill shot.

Swaps are supposed to fire to interrupt or when there are 2 or more allies near the DA (DA may count in that list), so it might fire when just one ally is near the DA.   How should the AI use this skill?

I think Exxentric is talking about when an assassin has a healer assigned, or in the case of a general with two healers - it's best if he first moves to a tower and re-evaluates his health, perhaps depending on distance from the health stone (certainly if it's greater than say, 75).  I'm not sure if it's possible or productive to get the AI to sit at the tower and wait for its health to go back up, but even just giving it a temporary goal to move there could prevent it from teleporting/running halfway back to the health stone before turning around.

However, as the AI has some issues surviving when running away, there are DEFINITELY still times (e.g. extremely low health) when it's better for it to simply port out if it has the capability.  It might be somewhat tough to get a balance between getting the hell out when it really needs to, and simply falling back a bit when it isn't in immediate danger.

Another condition to consider with snipe is the presence of a friendly demigod in close proximity to (say, <15) the potential snipe target.  If Reg doesn't have anything better to do with snipe at the time, this would at least keep his snipes potentially useful to his allies that are actively engaging an enemy demigod.  Friendly towers/forts could be included in this radius check too (use categories.HERO + categories.DEFENSE + categories.FORT for the cat vector), so between a combination of something else doing damage and the target hopefully having lowered HP, he'll do some good with his snipes.

Okay, pure Ooze UB (c) Cowbuttzex:

1. Ooze 1

2. Inner Beast 1

3. Diseased Claw 1

4. Ooze 2

5. Grasp 1

6. Inner Beast 2

7. Ooze 3

8. Inner Beast 3

9. Stats 1

10. Ooze 4

11. Stats 2

12. Stats 3

13. Stats 4

14. Stats 5

15. Acclimation

16. Stats 6

17. Bestial Rage 1

18. Bestial Rage 2

19. Bestial Rage 3

20. Bestial Rage 4

Note: I sometimes get Spit 1-4 late game (17-20) for surprise kills, since by late game no one expects pure Ooze beast to spit if the enemy is getting out of range. But I think AI will do much better with Cow's original build outlined above. 

don't believe its in any current builds (generally for good reason), but perhaps the ai could utilize is some...

The biggest short coming with the AI is they lack the killer instinct.

there are times when I am literally sitting in range of DA warp strike spine when I have 200 health and he doesn't kill me. there was also an occurance where Soccer mom walked by a sedna with 600 hp, well below pounce 4 damage and the sedna didn't even give soccer a menancing look. It seems like the AI just doesn't register when an opposing demigod is killable. enemy demigods can literally have a few hundred health left and the AI will simply ignore them as they walk by rather than hit them with one spell for a kill.

I've played with when to continue the attack and when to retreat a lot and most times it is not a good idea for the AI to pursue into towers.   Even if they get the kill their path-finding of a safe path out on some maps can be terrible.

The one exception to this is regulus's snipe skill.  With that range he will drop whatever he is doing for a kill shot if its available.

I will say this in testing Regulus's snipe I had to turn fog of war back on.  The AI does respect fog of war, so tracker/visibility is beneficial to the sniper build.

Normally when i watch the AI i setup a 3 vs 4 game and i go chill behind the health stone and watch both teams.  When testing the sniper build I kept getting pinged by snipes from the center area.  Without buying items the function to find the weakest target in range kept selecting me

Then to test if he was paying attention I would go get myself hurt to below the snipe damage and sure enough I was quickly put down.

Speaking of ping I didn't find anything to interact with the AI through pings.  Hopefully they can stay out of trouble without user input.