Re: [Freeciv-Dev] normal AI is yet too hard

[David Pfitzner <dwp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, 1 Nov 1998 11:29:51 -0800 (PST) David Kirchner wrote:
> 
> There is no AI. It's an omnipotent player-killer, with less restrictions
> placed on it than a player.

Nitpick: mostly omniscient + some advantages, not omnipotent :-)

> If there is a team or person working on making the "AI" more fair, I'd
> like to help (solicitation, plug) This game would be really neat with a
> fair AI. Anyone know of such a team?

John Stonebraker used to do the AI development, but doesn't seem to be
doing so at the moment.

I think anyone who wants to work on the AI (or other parts of freeciv)
is welcome to try, and if they produce good code (and nag the maintainers 
enough :-) it will probably be included into "official" freeciv.

-- David