[Freeciv-Dev] Re: (PR#4701) autoattack oddities esp. with cruise missiles

["Andy Smith" <andy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Jul 28, 2003 at 11:15:47PM -0700, Jason Short wrote:
> There are several "handicaps" that you should check.  If the handicap 
> flags are set (as they are for the current AI) then the player is 
> allowed to cheat in this way.

Apologies, I'm a bit new to this code.  Are you saying that:

if (pplayer->ai.control && !ai_handicap(H_MAP)) {
  /* AI is allowed to cheat and attack units at this location. */
}

(plus handling for H_FOG too)

> This is pretty severe cheating, even for the AI.  But OTOH the AI will 
> rarely make it far enough that this matters (does it build cruise 
> missiles at all?).

Not sure, but taking someone's capital could split them so an AI
ends up with missiles I suppose.

Seems none of the AI levels by default include H_MAP or H_FOG so any AI
would be free to cheat like this.  OTOH I guess it has been like
this for a while and no one has noticed before.

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