[freeciv-ai] Re: interested in building a new client-side AI

["Bobby D. Bryant" <bdbryant@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 2003.04.21 11:47, David Chen wrote:

>  I am a Berkeley student working with my professor on implementing an 
> AI for freeciv.  We are interested in building a completely new AI 
> agent that knows only as much as the human player.  As I understand, 
> the current AI code is a bit messy and is attached to the server 
> side.  Moreover, one of the current goals being worked on is building 
> a client side AI.  So I was wondering how difficult it would be to 
> build an interface for a client side agent.  Since we require no 
> omniscience, it wouldn't need any hack on the server code.  If anyone 
> can point me to the files that I need to read to build a clean 
> interface, that would be greatly appreciated.
I have been thinking about bootstrapping a client AI by starting with 
the player client and incrementally converting the various operations 
to AI control.  That way you would have a workable (testable!) system 
at every step along the way.
For example, start with something easy like the decision of what a city 
should be building or what the tax rate should be, and remove the 
user's controls for that operation when you're happy with the AI's 
performance.  Then move on to the next operation.
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Bobby Bryant
Austin, Texas