[freeciv-ai] Re: ai research -- ai research overflow

[Jason Dorje Short <jdorje@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jonathan Landis wrote:
>    I have noticed the ai (on skill level normal) will sometimes not be awarded 
> a new technology when it has the required number of bulbs.  It can happen that 
> the ai has more than the necessary number of bulbs for a tech, and then a turn 
> later it has still more bulbs but no new tech, and so on.  Both via an embassy 
> and by taking the ai player, I have seen the ai go hundreds of bulbs over the 
> requirement for The Republic and Gunpowder, for example.  I am running 2.06 
> (blush) but I haven't read anything about this issue in bug reports, the 
> mailing list archive, the docs.
>   The especially baffling thing is that it doesn't always happen.  Sometimes 
> research proceeds normally.  Is this some kind of handicap?  If so, why does it 
> apply on skill level normal?  I thought I would ask before upgrading to 2.07 
> (blush again-- slow modem) and/or digging through the code.  Cheers!
There is a handicap for the AI on easier difficulty levels.  However 
this shouldn't show the AI having more bulbs than needed; it should just 
show that more bulbs are needed.  IIRC by normal difficulty level the 
handicap is gone.
-jason