[Freeciv-Dev] Re: Preparations for other AIs and humans

["Bobby D. Bryant" <bdbryant@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thue wrote:

> On Saturday 13 January 2001 14:09, Jeff Mallatt wrote:
>
> > But, as with the worklist, I want my automation to continue even if my
> > client gets disconnected.  Also, again as with worklists, saving state
> > becomes a problem if it isn't all on the server.
>
>
> This could be solved by making the server spawn a "maintainance AI" when a
> client gets disconnected. Also, we can give the client the ability to save a
> few clues like AUTO_ROAD_BUILDING, only for use on the client side.
> Most of the information needed for automation can probably be rebuild without
> clues; ie, just reevaluate from scratch.

One thing though -- if you are running your own custom client-side script, you
can't very well expect the server to know what your script calls for.

Bobby Bryant
Austin, Texas