[freeciv-ai] Re: A diplomacy AI rule

[banjo <banjo@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Olivier DAVY wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I got an idea for the diplomacy system of freeciv.
> It will force the IA to use diplomacy (between IA and IA/Humans).
>
> The following rule could be used :
>
> The opportunity that diplomacy adds is that a civilization can become the
> ally of another.
> Being in mind that EVERY civilization (symmetry ?) has its opportunity, what
> sould they do ?
> It can be seen also has a constraint for IA : if the civilization does not
> use this opportunity, the other will do, and will crush the former easily.
>
> I think (well, after reading the fourth book of "Foundation") that
> civilizations should tend to create alliances that will create equal forces,
> i.e. they should create symmetric super-civilizations (the alliances) to
> compensate the fact that civilizations have not the same power. They hence
> adjust the forces and live forever.
> What is important is symmetry in that case.
> Can we say that symmetry is the base of peacefull civilizations (e.g. : the
> Cold War ?).
>
> Practically, every ten turns (for example), we should compute the forces
> ratio, and allow IA civilizations to recreate or delete their alliances (but
> at what cost ?).
>
> If you find that idea could be interesting, here is an example
> Civ        Force / Points
> A          300
> B          200
> C          101
> D          30
> E          1
>
> Perhaps an alogrithm could force IA to make alliance such as A-D = 330 and
> B-C-E = 302 ?
>
> The algorithm could be "try to create #n alliances that minimize the maximum
> of difference between two of them".
> Thus everybody will think twice before attacking whatever civilization.
>
> Perhaps a civ can make peace with civ that are very small (to attack them
> later ?), and create alliance with same-force-civs.
>
> Since I am also an engineer in computer science, perhaps I could help to go
> further, if you like the idea.
>
> Olivier DAVY
> Olivier.davy_at_free.fr

or it could be an option that tunes the ai's level of diplomatic
sloppyness, maybe a way to change the grand strategic game by
creating more unstable alliances, unlike the long lived ones
I (we?) play at present.

what happens if we put knobs on some constants to see how they
change the feel of a game.

-banjo