[Freeciv-Dev] Re: stop ai from building useless buildings (2) (PR#1362)

[Petr Baudis <pasky@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dear diary, on Sat, Apr 06, 2002 at 11:54:17AM CEST, I got a letter,
where "Per I. Mathisen" <Per.Inge.Mathisen@xxxxxxxxxxx> told me, that...
> On Fri, 5 Apr 2002, Jason Short wrote:
> > I like the idea behind this (a lot), but I think you're going about it
> > slightly wrong.  I have always considered the handicap list as something
> > not directly related to the AI, but that could be related to any player.
> 
> Not _those_ handicaps, surely.

..snip..
> > Of course, if you're just using this patch locally you can do whatever
> > you want.  But I think you should consider what the "handicaps" should
> > be before pushing for inclusion of such a patch.
> 
> I think the handicaps are there to adjust ai behaviour. I think was the
> intention behind them and I think is how they should be used.

Fully agreed. I think overloading handicaps to be used by human players as well
is not a good idea. First, I don't see a point in this, as they're used to
change behaviour, not rules (as pointed out by Per), and also implementation of
that would be pretty ugly I guess. I think using experimental as an handicap is
fully appropriate.

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