[Freeciv-Dev] Re: how to improve the AI's attack (was: old/bad code in autoattack.c (PR#351))

[Tony Stuckey <stuckey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, May 03, 2000 at 07:44:25PM +0200, Reinier Post wrote:
> On Wed, May 03, 2000 at 01:29:18AM +0200, Tomasz Wegrzanowski wrote:
> > If ai would protect some cities much less,
> > I would perfore heavy rides into AI empires, just line or two (5-10 tiles)
> > after a front line. IgZOC unit would be needed for this, but there would
> > be roads or rails, so it would be fast
> 
> True, it would have to use a realistic measure of how much aggression
> against any given spot the enemy could mount, and base its defenses on that,
> taking things like roads and railroads into account.  This can be expensive.

        And is also unknowable in the general/fog of war case.

        The AI must assume that all coastal cities and all cities on a
contested continent must be "heavily" defended.  The only ones that it can
leave lightly defended are internal cities on an uncontested continent out
of range of any Helicopter/Paratroops.
        That's not a very useful rule.
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Anthony J. Stuckey                              stuckey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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