[freeciv-ai] Re: Measure the AI ability to harvest resources

[Raahul Kumar <raahul_da_man@xxxxxxxxx>]

--- "Per I. Mathisen" <per@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, 25 Nov 2002, Raahul Kumar wrote:
> > > Why not? Courthouse help a lot. I measured this.
> >
> > Share your measurements with me. I am highly sceptical. I still think in
> all situations either a temple or a marketplace are far better builds than a
> > courthouse.
> 
> Sorry, the code for these measurements is hidden in some code I wrote to
> implement gen impr for buildings, which doesn't work anymore. I calculated
> the exact benefits from various buildings, and the results were a bit
> surprising: Marketplace often had little use as long as cities were small,
> while Courthose could have much bigger impact, depending on distance to
> capital. Also (since I estimated impact on all cities for each building
> considered) I found that moving your palace often could help more than
> either...

Clearly your AI's were not Democratic/Republican/Communist. This idea of
measuring the effects of city improvements on cities before building(Hey I
remember this!) is really good. Send that in as a patch by itself. 

If you don't want to, send the gen-impr code to the list. Hopefully someone
will decide to implement it. 

Aloha,
RK.

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