[freeciv-ai] Re: AI Position of First Cities

[Ed Earl Ross <edearl@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jason Dorje Short wrote:

> Ed Earl Ross wrote:
>
> > The choice of city start positions by AI by  Freeciv 2.0.0 appears 
> > incorrect.
> > For example, AI moved a settler from a plains-wheat f/p/t=3/1/0 tile 
> > to a grassland 2/0/0 tile before founding a city.  If it had founded 
> > the city on the plains wheat tile, the total production for the city 
> > would have been plains-wheat 3/1/1 plus forest-pheasant 2/2/0 for a 
> > total of 5/3/1. After the AI move, the total production for the city 
> > was 2/0/1 plus 2/2/0 for a total of 4/2/1, which limits the 
> > production of new settlers early in the game. This fact means AI play 
> > during startup is less than optimal.
>
> See, you found some really stupid behavior already ;-).
>
> Try to make a savegame from right before this behavior occurs, and 
> send it to bugs@xxxxxxxxxxx.
> jason
The attached is a good example of this behavior.

The topmost settler is setting on grassland with a shield (3/1/0). AI 
moves it one up to a hill (1/0/0) and makes a city.

civgame-4000m.sav.gz
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