[Freeciv-Dev] Re: Client AI development

[Daniel Sjölie <deepone@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 2001-04-19 08:16:30, Cameron Morland wrote:
> La 2001-04-19, Jordan Crouse skribis:
> 
> > I think this has the most basis in real life.  A higher entity gives
> > orders (move to here, attack here, etc..) and then each unit is
> > responsible not only for its own survival (retreat or fortify if
> > needed), but also to obey a set of standing orders (sabotoge if
> > possible, pillage if possible).  Settlers would also work with a given
> > set of standing orders:  maximize production, food, build roads.
> 
> That's the idea of BB.
> 
> > Woo-hoo!  I'm willing to give a hand if you need it.
> 
> I highly recommend _Intelligence Without Reason_ if you want to get a
> better understanding of BB. Beyond that, I won't be doing any programming
> until at least May 22nd, so feel free to do whatever you like. I'd start
> by adding a task to the menu, like "Automate Settler" but for military
> units, and writing a simple function that does something silly like "if
> you can, move east". Once that works, starting to add better behaviours is
> the way to go.

It would be nice to be able to give direct additional input to the
behaviour of units... Like specifying that a specific settler should
build roads when automated...

I agree that building functions like these and make them available to
the human player is a good way to go... Makes it a LOT easier to
actually finish something... :) I also think that it will be easier to
use these functions in a "higher" AI later when one can look at how they
are used in a tested interface to a human player...

/Daniel

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