[Freeciv-Dev] Re: [Wishlist] Attitude manager (agent and AI)

[Raimar Falke <hawk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Mar 04, 2002 at 11:28:20AM -0600, Tony Stuckey wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 04, 2002 at 12:11:28PM +0000, Gregory Berkolaiko wrote:
> > This is related to an earlier email by Raimar.  He was talking about
> > displaying the effect a building like Marketplace would have.  Well,
> > Marketplace is an easy one to estimate for anyone (incl. AI) who knows
> > about the notion of "percent".  But the effect of, say, Cathedral, is more
> > involved.
> > 
> > So I would suggest the following extension to the CMA: once the target 
> > multipliers are set, you should be able to evaluate the effect of building 
> > a happiness-related improvement.  It would output (for user) the increase 
> > in surpluses you'd be able to get (maybe minus the cost of the 
> > upkeep).  And for AI you just need to combine 
> > the values of increases multiplied by their _WEIGHTINGs
> 
>       We already do.  worst_worker_tile_value() is used for this purpose
> already for luxury improvements -- we assume every newly content worker can
> find a tile to work which is as useful as the worst one we are working.
> ai/advdomestic.c, line 225 or so.
> 
>       Happiness buildings are evaluated through building_value(), 

> which is another obvious target for number -> enum cleanups.  Does
> anyone remember offhand what happiness[4] is?  We need enums like
> HAPPY_AFTER_MARTIAL_LAW, HAPPY_AFTER_LUXURY, etc.

Ack.

        Raimar

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