[freeciv-ai] Re: (PR#2644) AI needs 5400 years to get Republic

[Thomas Strub <ue80@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Jan 02, 2003 at 09:25:02AM -0800, Per I. Mathisen via RT wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 30 Dec 2002, ue80@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx via RT wrote:
> > > > after playing a little bit with the experimental AI i saw that the AI
> > > > isn't able to make the step to Monarchy or The Republic in some
> > > > cases.
> > >
> > > What was the reason - lack of the technology or didn't it decide to
> > > change?
> >
> > It's lack of technology. And a situation where all money is needed for
> > the buildings.
> >
> > New game with actual cvs:
> >
> > 100% tax 21 baracks + 16 courthouses, no libraries. 30 cities.
> > 28 settlers.
> 
> This could be because of one of two things:
>   - We don't have anything useful to build (can't optimize for food so
> that we can build settlers), so we build barracks instead.
>   - We have some spurious want for attackers all over the place that leads
> us to build barracks.
> 
> The former is more likely. Both are actual problems that should be fixed
> eventually.
> 
> I do not think that the complex algorithms hinted at by Ross will do any
> good whatsoever in any case. Fix the underlying problems.

I wrote some lines of code to see when Ai usually gets Republic.

1: Endyear: -2150
1: Endyear: -1800
1: Endyear: -1950
1: Endyear: -1050
1: Endyear: -575
1: Endyear: -1350
1: Endyear: -1850
1: Endyear: -1750
1: Endyear: -575
1: Endyear: -1800
1: Endyear: -1400
1: Endyear: -1100
1: Endyear: -725
1: Endyear: -2050
1: Endyear: -2450
1: Endyear: -1700
1: Endyear: -1200
1: Endyear: -2750
1: Endyear: -1700
1: Endyear: -2350
1: Endyear: -2850
1: Endyear: -2250
1: Endyear: 1776
1: Endyear: -1350
1: Endyear: -2400
1: Endyear: -2150
1: Endyear: 800
1: Endyear: -2100
1: Endyear: -500
1: Endyear: -2250
1: Endyear: -1550
1: Endyear: -925

10 times before -2000
 8 times between -2000 and -1500
11 times between -1500 and 1 AD
 2 times after 1 AD

Thats in 66% of the game much to late. The earlier you get Rep or
Monarchy the faster you can grow.

I think that the number of settlers is to high in all games. More than 1
settler for every city is not ok in most cases. (High food cities can
have 2)

To test
% for ((i=1 ;i<21;i++)) ;do ./ser -r test-ai >> test-rep  ; done
% grep Endy test-rep

Thomas
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