[freeciv-ai] Re: (PR#4137) Auto-Explore with new path-finding

["Cameron Morland" <cameron@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, May 16, 2003 at 09:04:44AM -0700, Guest wrote:
> > > 2. Same place, I think
> > > #define BEST_NORMAL_TILE  \
> > >  (100 * MAX_NEW_TILES * DIFF_TER_SCORE +\
> > >   100 * (VISION_TILES-MAX_NEW_TILES) * KNOWN_DIFF_TER_SCORE)
> > >                      ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> > 
> > <Grind, grind, grind>. Right.
> > 
> > > 3. A bad thing about these defines is that they are not constants:
> > > they
> > > depend on vision_range.  I don't know what to do about it though...
> > > Maybe
> > > set vision_range to 1 ?
> > 
> > It should be much faster that way; I made it clear in the comments
> > what
> > it "should" be, in case we want to make vision_range > 1 be much more
> > common at some point in the future.
> > 
> vision_range > 1 does happen on autoexplore. If I land on a
> railroaded continant, I tend to set a spy to AutoExplore and
> instantly reveal half the island. (Spy has vision_rage = 2)

Yes, obviously units can have vision_range > 1. But it won't affect
the behaviour significantly to overlook this when writing the explorer
code; the unit will still explore, just very slightly less well that
it might otherwise.

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