[Freeciv-Dev] Re: suggestion

[Jordan Crouse <jordanc@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Consider those poor disadvantaged folks who have no net access, and want to 
play a game against 10 or 15 AI players on a cold December night.  It would 
be very nice to keep the AI time to a minimum.  15 seconds a turn doesn't 
scale very well.

But I am all for having support for multiple scripting languages (anchored by 
a c interface, of course), so those who are more serious could plug in their 
favorite language for better performance.  But I speak for the little people 
who have little or no scripting experience -- give them their C based UI 
first, and then let all the gurus add their favorite languages later. 

That gives us a huge potential for complexity, while not losing sight of 
those who just want to play a quick game on the bus.  I even envision a day 
when some people would prefer to create and play very complex AI bots instead 
of playing themselves.

Jordan
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On Monday 23 April 2001 07:51, Glenn Taylor mentioned:
> Grzegorz Borowiak wrote:
> > On Sun, 22 Apr 2001, Michele Slocovich wrote:
> > > Idea
> > > scripting language for client side ai implementation
> >
> > My proposals: C, C++.
> >
> > All other are too slow to provide good ai.
>
> That's a pretty broad generalization. What time-critical
> decisions have to be made in FreeCiv that would necessitate
> as-fast-as-possible-AI? And can you give specific examples from
> that 'all other' category to show how they're not appropriate?
>
> glenn
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