[Freeciv-Dev] Re: flying AI

[Raimar Falke <hawk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Dec 28, 2001 at 11:35:00PM +0000, Gregory Berkolaiko wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am trying to make AI use bombers, but the real difficulty is to make it
> _build_ airunits.  The routines used in choosing attacking units to build
> are 
> 
> kill_something_with, process_attacker_want: advmilitary.c
> find_something_to_kill : aiunit.c
> 
> unfortunately these functions are among the most horrible to read and
> understand.  therefore I ask if anyone has any knowledge about the
> complicated weighting techniques to produce the choice.want etc...
> In particular, how do you think the want should be calculated for the
> bombers.
> 
> Petr, Raahul, if you have any cleanup patches ready for the above
> functions, please submit them!

Please don't submit such RFC emails to the bug tracking.

        Raimar

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