[Freeciv-Dev] Re: AI

[Cameron Morland <cjmorlan@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

La 2001-04-21, Claus Leth Gregersen skribis:

> Building a succesful civilization is not just simulating ants, how many of
> the wonders did ants build?

I think you'd be surprised how easy it is to play Civ. Even in Sid Meier's
Civ the AI was pretty good (though it cheated an awful lot).

> A good and interesting AI need both, a lowlevel to accomodate for
> personality and higher levels to plan and order.

Yes, there really isn't any debate about that. The choice is what sort of
style to use for the agents. Because of the simplicity of the problem, I
suspect that any method will work. You may disagree about how simple the
problem is.


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