[Freeciv-Dev] Re: agents, tiles, puppeteer

[nikodimka <nikodimka@xxxxxxxxx>]

Ah... well talking not about puppeteer only,
my concern is to allow agents (well puppeteer is trying to be an agent)
to be _stateless_.

Right now the agent must keep state (i.e. remember all the known units/cities 
parameters) to compute such a diff by itself.

nikodimka

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Hi,

May be now someone can answer these questions,
Raimar, are you able to answer?

My real concern is about puppeteer interface to be able
to present changes to unit/city/tile in somewhat readable form.

It would be much better to not just recieve notification
"unit changed, here's how it looks now:" and the full description following
but 
"unit changed, here's the diffs with previous state:" and much shorter readable
description.


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Subject: Re: agents, tiles, recycled IDs
From: "Per I. Mathisen" <per@...>
Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2003 23:50:33 +0000 (GMT)
Cc: freeciv-dev@...
Newsgroups: gmane.games.freeciv.devel

On Thu, 21 Aug 2003, nikodimka wrote:
> I came to the following questions I'd be happy to find answers for:

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> 2) Are there any plans on extending agents interface to react
>  on map tiles as it reacts on units and cities?
>
> 3) It would be usefull when getting notification on unit change
>  to access the old state of the unit.
>  So agents can easily determine which of unit fields have changed.
>  With no access to the old state the only possibility for agent to
>  figure out *changes* is to keep track of all available units.
>  I have already asked the question at freeciv-ai@ but unfortunately got no 
> answer. :(

Raimar is the agents guy. He is current overworked on non-freeciv matters,
but I guess he'll answer you when he has time.

  - Per







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