[freeciv-ai] Re: Opinions on some AI issues

[Raimar Falke <rf13@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Jun 20, 2002 at 01:05:20PM +0200, Raimar Falke wrote:
> > Bodyguarding is a great idea.  CivIII got it (I think they stole
> > quite a few features from FreeCiv, actually).  But to see a rifleman
> > guarded by a mech.inf. is hilarious!  It happens because rifleman
> > had 5A > 5D which qualifies him as an attacking unit.  And 6A/6D
> > mech.inf. is a defender!  How do we distinguish an attacking unit
> > from a defending one?  We can write complicated functions or we can
> > use more role tips in the rulesets.

Thinking more about this: the question is against what enemy units you
want to defend yourself? An easy answer could be: one of the best
(attacking) unit. You get this info from game.global_advances. Than
you assign as much bodyguards to this unit (the number of bodyguards
may also be 0 if the unit is a good defender) to win the fight in
every case or with some probability. Because of the stack handling
only one bodyguard is useful at the moment. But the code can/should
also be able to cope with different settings.

        Raimar

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