[Freeciv-Dev] Re: [Snapshot] Agents

[Raimar Falke <hawk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Aug 17, 2001 at 01:54:16AM +0200, Raimar Falke wrote:
> 
> I finally managed to make a diff of my current tree against the
> current CVS version. The tree contains three agents and a lot of
> supporting code:
> 
>  - city management agent (CMA): this one manages the citizien of a
>  city so that the citizen work on tiles which are most useful to a
>  given goal. It also manages specialists.
> 
>  - goto agent (GA): it is like a normal goto but completely at the
>  client side. It is currently only used to estimate the number of
>  turns to go from one position to another and to actually send
>  settlers from one place to another.
> 
>  - settler management agent (SMA): like the current auto-settler but
>  it will also build new cities. However it is programmed more clearly
>  than the current code in server/ and ai/. So I hope it is (more)
>  understandable. The SMA needs some docu on how the agent works. Also
>  external requests (other parts of the code can suggest actions (like
>  build a road at (45,67) which would not necessary benefit a city)
>  are still open.
> 
> The patch and some savegames from one of the last runs are in
> ftp.freeciv.org/freeciv/incoming.
> 
> I hope to get most of the generic parts (everthing without
> client/agents) into CVS part by part. So there little point in reading
> through the whole patch now. Instead just apply it and play a bit with
> it. 
> 
> What do people thing about this? I hope these agents are some of the
> first components of the new client side AI. Planned as a next step is
> an exploring agent (the current isn't optimal) and some code which
> will suggest a city improvement based on some weights.

An updated version (sma4.diff.gz) is in the incoming directory.

        Raimar

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