[Freeciv-Dev] Re: Fog of war only for the AI (PR#1120)

[jdorje@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]

Reinier Post wrote:

> On Tue, Dec 11, 2001 at 06:02:01AM -0800, gianmario.scotti@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > Sometimes I find the AI irritatingly good (even on easiest level- ok, I suck at
> > civ and I hate losing) so I thought hey, why not have fogofwar set to 1 for the
> > AI, but not for the human player?
> Good idea ...
>
>
> > Implications: I believe this would be fairly easy to implement. We already have
> > Fog of war, all we need to do is not to activate it for the human player.
> The problem is that the AI is not a regular player, its interface with the
> server is very different.

I think there are several completely unrelated problems that need to be 
solved here:
- Getting the AI to play with a handicap like fog of war.  There's a 
whole list of handicaps in the handicap enumeration, and AFAIK the AI 
obeys none of them.  This is a pain to fix using the current server-side 
AI system (if I understand things correctly).
- Allowing players to violate the handicaps.  This would mean making 
this handicap enumeration common between ai/human players, then changing 
code to obey it.  This would probably be quite reasonable.
jason