How to: script Artificial Intelligence

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ai\692.as: INFORMATION : Building.
ai\692.as: <12, 2>: ERROR : Unexpected token 'else'
ai\692.as: ERROR : Unable to build module

<x,y> means that there is a mistake on line x, in this case 12.
The mistake is that everything beyond "//basic move conditions:" isn't within a function, and once it encounters something that should be inside a function (such as an "else"-statement), it throws an error.
Also the "else"-statement has to follow an "if"-statement, but in this case it is following the function declaration ("int ego(){").

I also don't really understand when I should use certain characters such as {. And yes, I used Clide as a base for his AI...

{'s and }'s are used to indicate a block of code.
An example of this is in an "if"-statement. If you want to execute multiple lines of code you'll have to group it within the two brackets like this:

CPP-Code: if(this_is_true){ do_one_thing(); do_another_thing(); }

If we were to leave out the brackets like this:

CPP-Code: if(this_is_true) do_one_thing(); do_another_thing();

it would only be the next statement ("do_one_thing();"), and the statements after that would be executed no matter the the result of the "if"-statement.
Also note that the indentation of the lines doesn't matter, so all the following pieces of code mean exactly the same thing

CPP-Code: //code 1 if(this_is_true) do_one_thing(); do_another_thing();   //code 2 if(this_is_true){ do_one_thing(); } do_another_thing();   //code 3 if(this_is_true){do_one_thing();} do_another_thing();