Re: [Freeciv-Dev] AI (was: Beta 1.8.0)

[Lalo Martins <lalo@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mar 06, David Pfitzner decided to present us with:
> I'm a bit confused about all the complaints of AI 
> omniscience, because it seems to me the easy AI 
> _isn't_ very omniscient.  Well, it knows about places 
> to build cities, but the easy AI doesn't use that 
> information very well.   And it _doesn't_ know where 
> your cities are until it finds them.  It does know 
> what defenders you have in cities, though a player can
> also see undefended cities (if completely empty) in 
> the minimap.

Omniscient = it has all the map information, and thus it plays
the game with completely different rules. It doesn't have to
explore, as people have pointed out.

I believe I'd prefer many times to play against a "hard"
non-omniscient AI that plays by the same rules I do, than an
"easy" omniscient one. Didn't someone this week (Bob Young?) say
that Free Software is about choice? ;-)

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