[Freeciv-Dev] Re: [Bug][RFC] Stupid attack behaviour by AI (PR#1340)

["Per I. Mathisen" <Per.Inge.Mathisen@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, 23 Mar 2002, Gregory Berkolaiko wrote:
> Raahul Kumar drew my attention to this phenomenon: if you park your, say,
> phalanx on a wee mountain outside an AI city then from time to time the
> city's gates will burst open and AI will attack you with few phalanxes or
> similarly inefficient units.  Seemingly without any real desire to kill you...
...
> because reinforcements are counted in the attack but _not_ counted in the
> loss.
>
> So what happens is:
> AI accumulates quite a few defensive units.

Why on Earth does the AI build and attack with _defensive_ units?

Yours,
Per

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