[Freeciv-Dev] Re: freeciv 1.12.1 spec?

[Mike Kaufman <mkaufman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Dec 05, 2001 at 10:09:05PM -0500, Ross W. Wetmore wrote:
> At 05:47 PM 01/12/05 +0100, Raimar Falke wrote:
> >On Wed, Dec 05, 2001 at 07:36:25AM -0600, Mike Kaufman wrote:
> >> On Wed, Dec 05, 2001 at 05:02:24AM -0800, Raahul Kumar wrote:
> >> > One nice feature I would like to see in the code is AI cleanups. 
> >> 
> >> I thought about this one before I wrote my list. I agree that we need
> >> the cleanups. I just think that the goal to "cleanup the AI" is
> >> nebulous. When do you say that [not] enough cleanup has been done to
> release?
> >
> >Ack. Especially since the AI cleanup isn't visible to the user.
> 
> I'm not so sure about that one ... I seem to remember complaints about
> the founding habits of settlers, i.e. cuddling in-between existing cities.
> 
> There were a couple other complaints about behaviours with 5 line fixes.
> 
> Tightening up the keep a "defender in city" code is just finishing the 
> current poorly implemented attempts to do the same thing that have been 
> frozen for the last 3 years.

is this the "I need to put 6 mech inf in each city and then sit there" 
behavior?

> 
> Return to heal, vs find the nearest target to suicide against is not
> that much code either.
> 
> Some of the warmap fixes in addition to being cleaner and more robust, 
> might also provide opportunity to fix trireme stuff, or add air_power
> in a serious way.

I wouldn't necessarily call these things "cleanup". "Cleanup" wouldn't
be visible to the end user. These do seem like they might be worthy things 
to do however... Are these truly 5 line fixes or hyperbole? If it's so, why 
aren't they done already?