[freeciv-ai] Re: How do AI units board a ship?

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

On Sat, 14 Sep 2002, Gregory Berkolaiko wrote:
> Do they walk to it from a great distance and then jump on board, or get
> picket up from a city or walk to the shore and then moved on board?

See my post on ferry code earlier this month for a more thorough
explanation of what the AI does.

In short: It walks up to a certain threshold distance to jump aboard a
ship which is idling in a city.

> In other words, if we remove this idiotic
>       if (ground_unit_transporter_capacity(x1, y1, pplayer) > 0)
> check from the warmap, will AI really suffer.

I have no idea. Loooks like a bad way to do it, but what's new when it
comes to the ferry code... it may be that it uses this assumption
somewhere in the ferry code for all I know.

Yours
Per

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