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

[Martin Hill <mhill@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi David,

I'm working on a CLIPS client-based AI, which thus far comprises an 
"agent" which updates objects and facts in a CLIPS module, and some 
rules for allocating resources, observing the map, and building cities. 
It's probably very similar in concept to the Lisp API Phil Houk 
describes. I uploaded a snapshot once to ftp.freeciv.org in 
freeciv/incoming/fc_clips* (3 files). That snapshot is very outdated, 
but I can send you are more recent version if you like. It is based on 
1.14.0 rather than cvs because I wanted something stable to work with. 
So far Imy API handles terrain, government, science, units and cities. 
As for actual AI, all it can do is find a really good spot for the 
capital city (provided you have explored enough), and send a settler to 
build it.
Martin

On Monday, April 21, 2003, at 01:47 PM, David Chen wrote:

> hi,
>  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.
> David Chen
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