[freeciv-ai] Re: RFC: Behaviour constants.

[Raimar Falke <rf13@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Dec 04, 2002 at 10:27:52PM +0000, Gregory Berkolaiko wrote:
> How can we improve AI without going too deep?
> 
> This is a legitimate question, and an answer to it is given by various 
> constants and factors and multipliers that the AI code is peppered with.  
> Examples are: what is considered to be a small nation (number of cities) 
> -- used to encourage settler building; what is the default danger for 
> capital; what is food/shield weighting etc.
> 
> Some of these numbers are defines, some are just plain numbers.  What I 
> propose is to collect them all in some .h file included in all AI files, 
> so they can be tweaked in a systematic way.  Then tweak them and run 
> pitfights, lots of them.  There ar, of course difficulties like "constant 
> is constant for all nations", but they are solvable.

I agree. But please think a step further and not make
 #define FOO 3
but use:
 int get_foo(void);

We made this error with UNIT_LOG and NORMAL_TILE_WIDTH. In the future
we may add parameters to the get_foo function.

        Raimar

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