Re: [Freeciv-Dev] Catching up + Some thoughts - comments sought

[Matt Busigin <jediknight@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 10 Mar 1999, Kris Bubendorfer wrote:

#1.  There was some talk about making the civil war random rather than
#absolute.  Has anything happened over this?  It certainly was my intention
#when I wrote the civil war code that there be a `chance' component (ala
#civ2)


I like that idea.  How many military units you have in the city could also
be taken in account, depending on your government.

#So, how about Spy vs Diplomat giving a 50% greater chance to the Spy.  If the 
#comments are favorable I'll write a patch.

I really hate having send over a whole transport of spies just to defeat one
diplomat.

#5.  Anyone want to change the AI to use the diplomats aggressively (for the 
#higher levels)?  I'm scared of the AI code, but a recent game of Civ2 reminds 
#me that the Microprose AI does steal tech etc...  John was intending to do 
#this, but seems to have undergone spontaneously combustion after writing what 
#is now the `Hard' AI.

Erg.  Keep that in the hard AI, please. ;-)

                        cheers,
                                matt

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