[Freeciv-Dev] Re: AI strategy

[Raahul Kumar <raahul_da_man@xxxxxxxxx>]

--- Petr Baudis <pasky@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > I suspect that having a reserve force of attacking units rather than
> settlers
> > would work well too. The AI builds far too many defensive units. 
> I don't think so. AI will be still overmilitaristic, expansionistic is better
> IMHO. I prefer settlers more than attack units, as they can generally
> increase
> food (irrigation), production (mines) and trade (roads), and all this at once
> (building of new city). Attack units can't. They can only conquer foreign
> cities, with much more effort put in than just building settler and deploying
> new city around.

The AI has only one function in life, and that is to make single player games
exciting. The only way to do that is military conquest, the AI expands fine as
is. Curently, when I am attacking an AI opponent, they rarely attack the bases
(the cities I took from the AI). They just build/buy a lot of defensive units,
when for less than half the cost in offensive units, they could wipe out my
foothold.

There is a use for reserve settlers, but 1/3 is far too many settler units.
Settler units after a certain no have less and less utility. Once everything is
railroad and irrigated you need far fewer settlers.


There is no reason a complete client side AI could not be built. Raimar?


> Summary: this is all is very nice, but very long-term idea.

Yes. I'm just suggesting that you be open to ideas other than server side ai.
As an aside, this client side ai would fix two big bugs with freeciv. No more
peeking under the warmap, and no more ai gets to move first twice.

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