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

[Gregory Berkolaiko <Gregory.Berkolaiko@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, 24 Mar 2002, Per I. Mathisen wrote:

> 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?

AI builds defensive units because it's scared but at some point AI decides 
that it's better off attacking the enemy outside the gate.