[Freeciv-Dev] Re: (PR#4111) Client-side AI

["Mark Metson" <markm@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 29 Apr 2003, Gregory Berkolaiko wrote:

> The purpose of this thread is to collect the arguments for and against the
> client-side AI and to discuss possible dangers and advantages.

> CONTRA:
> 
> 1. There will be a lag between requests sent by the AI and their
> execution.  Everything will become much slower.

Computers keep getting faster, ridiculously faster. Plus what about gains 
by parallelism, how many AIs can one computer run? How many smart AIs? How 
many really really smart AIs? 

We might have to really look at is this a strategy game or a shoot-em-up. 
If someone wants a shoot-em-up with a Civ flavour how about moving toward 
letting them tell their AI what kind of policies they want their 
civilisation to use then put them at the controls of their civ's 
flagchariot or flagship or flagbattlemech or whatever and let them do 
their shootemup hand/eye stuff within the context of such actual battles 
as occur instead of trying to compress centuries of development and 
diplomacy and politics and logistics into a couple of seconds of joystick 
wiggling and trigger-pulling?

-MarkM-

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