[Freeciv-Dev] Re: Barbarians

[Mike Kaufman <kaufman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> We only need one barbarian player. It is not a normal player, and should
> not die when it loses all its units and cities. Its player name should be
> merely "Barbarian", be created on server start instead of constantly
> recreated as it is now, and it should not be visible in the F3 or /list
> player lists to avoid confusion. It should gain techs the same way as
> everyone else, but these techs should have no bearing on the units
> spawned, only on units built in occupied cities. There is then no need for
> a "barbarian nation", so this kludge can be removed.

you must be able to save barbarians in savegames, and the easiest/simplest
way to do that is for a barbarian to be a player. Frankly, looking over
your list, I don't see why barbarians can't be regular AI players. As long
as you introduce personalities, etc. The only non-AI specific code is the
player creation and placement code. Then hand off to AI with a set of
personality restrictions (what to build in cities taken, how fast to
retreat, what role is give to leader...)

-mike