[Freeciv-Dev] Re: More on (un)happiness

["Mike Jing" <miky40@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Andrew McGuinness <andrew_mcguinness@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I started thinking about implementing this today. (It was I who suggested 
> it a day or two ago)
Yep.  It is an excellent idea.  And I am in the middle of coding it right 
now.  For the most part, it is pretty straightforward.  The only peoblem is 
to make the AI understand it.  Maybe it will lead me to actually read that 
part of the code.  But the main concern is for multiplayer right now.  We 
will get back to the AI later.  Someday.
> I was thinking in terms of leaving the "foodbox" server variable, and
> adding game.ruleset parameters food_ini and food_inc, to get
> (( food_ini + ((citysize*food_inc) / 16)) * foodbox )
>
> This leaves the foodbox variable controllable from the client to tweak the 
> overall speed, while allowing changes to the way in which food varies with 
> city size from the ruleset where "larger" game changes are.
That's exactly what I am doing.  :-)

> The 16 constant would allow values of, say, food_ini=2, food_inc=8,
> foodbox=10, to make the food needed grow half as fast against city size.
I am thinking more of 100, so that food_inc works like a percentage.  It is 
earier to understand that way.  There is the danger of roundoff error so you 
do have to choose its value carefully, but that's true anyway.
> Of course, if you implement it, do it how you like, I am just putting
> down what my thinking was.
Thanks for the input.  It looks like we are in agreement on this one.

Mike

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