[freeciv-ai] Re: (PR#2477) Improved Auto-Explore

["Cameron Morland via RT" <rt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Dec 24, 2002 at 03:41:35PM -0500, Cameron Morland wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 24, 2002 at 12:05:23PM -0800, Gregory Berkolaiko via RT wrote:
> > 
> > > > All others: I intend to commit this patch soon (when Cameron blesses my 
> > > > changes,
> > > > basically).  So comment now or...
> > > 
> > > ssh from a windows box over a modem. Ugh.
> > > 
> > > Your mods appear to be fine, and I assume that it compiles. It shouldn't 
> > > behave
> > > significantly differently.
> > 
> > I does compile but I am not 100% satisfied with the behaviour.  See 
> > attached savegame (login: aas02101).  After few turns it strays away from 
> > the shore.  Also it wasn't terribly eager to explore city tiles, I think 
> > you should increase the weight.
> 
> OK, I'll take a look at it in early January.

So I lied. :)

I fiddled with the values some more; the problem was that staying
near shore wasn't as valuable as exploring more land. The values
20, 81, 0, 51, 181 are better, and deal correctly with your save
game. I also tried a few other games. It tries much harded to stay
near shore now.

On an unrelated note,
I noticed that huts only get considered during part 1, so a hut
seen during a turn will not be visited until next turn unless
we stumble onto it. If we add 2000 to the score of any tile with
a hut, we will grab them as we go (2000 > 5*(81+181)). You might
incorporate this into the desirability function.

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