[freeciv-ai] Re: ai bug when splitting up settlers

["Per I. Mathisen" <Per.Inge.Mathisen@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 15 May 2002, Mark Metson wrote:
> > I've made my custom rulesets, where I've split the old settler up into a
> > workers unit and a settlers unit which can only settle cities. The AI
> > proceeds to build truly massive amounts of workers, and only a tiny amount
> > of settlers (yes, settlers are unit type number 0).
> >
> > This tells me that the AI might be wanting settlers for all the wrong
> > reasons, even if it uses them correctly when built.
> >
> > Ideas?
>
> What does the AI do when workers rather than settlers are unit type 0 ?
> Mainly I am wondering whether 0 being treated specially might have any
> effect, like maybe some code someplace that is trying to encourage
> building something other than unit 0.

Unit 0 is the fallback default some places in the code, but I doubt this
has much (any?) effect, since there is always somthing sensible to build
other than the default (with zero want).

Yours,
Per

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