[Freeciv-Dev] gen-impr stuff

["andi payn" <paynfc@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I downloaded the latest gen-impr combined patch right before Christmas, and 
looked through that plus what's in FreeCiv-ac and maybe a few other places, 
and added a bunch of new code, and I've gotten something hacked together 
that's at least 95% workable.
First, I added in all of the effects that weren't handled, and changed a few 
of them around (I don't think pollution adjustments are supposed to be 
additive, for example), and that's mostly done.  I also added some of the 
missing things (like reactor meltdowns).
Then I dug into the AI, and rewrote all of the code to look at effects 
rather than improvements.  The goal is that the AI will work exactly the 
same as before with standard rulesets, and won't be horribly unintelligent 
with new/modified buildings.  It almost works, except that it doesn't quite 
understand accumulating Make_Content effects properly (which causes some 
noticeable flaws), a variety of little things that don't seem to noticeably 
harm the AI haven't been verified, and a few effects that weren't used, or 
were only used together with a more important effect, aren't considered the 
way they probably should be.  But anyway, the AI usually chooses good 
buildings to build and estimates danger reasonably, and that's the most 
important part.
Then, while waiting for my ISP to stop being broken, I did a lot of testing 
and fixing, and as I said, I think it's almost stable and usable.
The problem is, like a complete moron, I did all of this in the same code 
base I was making other changes in (and had applied other patches to), which 
is very nice if I'm the only one who's ever going to use it (I can make 
changes to my other patches, and to modpacks I play with, etc.), but it's 
going to make it very hard to separate. I'll try to disentangle everything, 
but it's going to take some time.
Meanwhile, if anyone wants to see what I've done, play around with it, steal 
some of my ideas and redo them properly, or even help separate out the code, 
I'll be glad to make my entire tree available to anyone who's 
brave/stupid/unemployed enough to look at it (as a tarball, or as one 
massive patch). It is playable, and fun, as-is.

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