[Freeciv-Dev] Re: Clearing your backlog

[Raahul Kumar <raahul_da_man@xxxxxxxxx>]

--- Raimar Falke <hawk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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> Just go ahead. However I would also greatly appreciate any extra eyes
> on the patches in the backlog. For example is the AI-railway patch a
> good idea based on the fact that it may make it easier for an attacker
> to capure a continent? This is a question were I have no answer yet.
> 

There is no good answer for this question. It's a tradeoff. The AI can be
much better at attacking with this patch, if it has a lot of cities on
a large landmass map, and the human player has fewer cities on the same
continent. In large landmass scenarios this is a big win.

There are scenarios where it can be much worse though. 3 equal size islands
controlled by the ai. I land a big invasion force on one island, capture
the capital and split the ai in half. Game winner. I believe this scenario
is where the problem lies. If the ai capital and wonder cities are well
protected, this might not be much of a problem. 

On balance, it makes sense to allow railroads. It also makes it much easier to
reinforce cities as well. I think that

a) improves attack a lot
b) mixed blessing as far as defense goes, but it is not certainly a negative.

Anyone else want to make comments about the desirability of the ai building
cross country networks? 

> > I'm wondering which patches you are currently working on. Maybe I can give
> > you a detailed review of problems areas for some patches you are not yet
> > sure of, and help cut the backlog.
> 
> > Raimar, will we see CMA 2.7 any time soon?
> 
> Doesn't look like so.
> 
> > Would you accept a patch that updates the CMA 2.6 to compile against
> > current CVS?
> 
> You may do this (you have to cope with the new city dialog for
> this). However note that I will only accept the CMA after it has the
> ability to save presets and let the user manage them. This includes
> changes to client/attribute to handle two types of attributes:
> server-saved and client-saved. But these have to be access through the
> same (existing) interface. So there is a lot of work to do. And so
> little time available.
> 

I was just thinking of fixing it to cope with the new city dialog. If I have
to do all the rest as well, I think I'll go back to server side AI.

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