[Freeciv-Dev] Re: [PATCH] [1.2] move some common AI equations to kill_desire() (PR#1279)

[Raahul Kumar <raahul_da_man@xxxxxxxxx>]

--- Petr Baudis <pasky@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
 Dear diary, on Mon, Feb 25, 2002 at 03:35:07PM CET, I got a letter,
 where Raahul Kumar <raahul_da_man@xxxxxxxxx> told me, that...
 ..snip..
 
 OBTW snipping the parts of mail you don't reply to would be nice feature to
 have commited into you as well ;)).

Your will is my command. 
Your mailing thing is doing this, and it's somewhat annoying.. is there
any way how to change this behaviour, please? ;)


Yes. I'll change it for any emails I send to you after this one.
 
Many thanks.
 
 +Compute how much we want to kill certain victim we've chosen.
 ..snip..
 I can't tell from this comment what happens when a fortress is the
 target tile.
 
 That depends on the code where kill_desire() is used, kill_desire()
 itself doesn't care. Take findvictim() or find_something_to_kill() as a
 reference context code. It looks some defense value somewhere is computed     
  
 properly for that case and it somehow reflects in the parameters of 
 kill_desire()
 -
 at least I hope so :).
 
 I was hoping someone decides to audit the AI combat code and see if it
 actually makes the right decisions  in accordance with the following
 factors
 
Attacking 100 units stacked with a mech inf over 1 unit stacked with a
musket.  I'm pretty sure the AI code does not weigh large stacks as being
sufficiently good for attacking at all costs.
 
Are 100 units stacked with a mech inf frequent case? Stacks themselves are
pretty rarely more than 3 units at one tile, IMHO.

Late game, I frequently stack 15 units with a mech inf in front of an AI city,
before attacking. 

 As for the someone who audits the code, I think you're familiar with him.
 You've probably seen him in the mirror before, and his last name is Baudis.
 
 Oh, I'm so sorry to disappoint you.. but as I said above, I don't think it's
 worth it, and cleanups are my priority now. Also, I'm going to cleanup
 assess_danger() after this patch and then my freeciv period will fall down
 again and I'm going to have a pause for about two weeks or a month (or I'll
 do
 another patch before or I won't finish assess_danger(), depending how I'll
 feel, what will get my interest and how much time other things will take).
 

Ok. It was worth a shot. My innate laziness. Now I'll have to try and sucker
Greg or Raimar into it. They were already discussing combat results.  
 
        

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