[Freeciv-Dev] Re: Fixing ICS (simply)

[Mark Metson <markm@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, 21 Dec 2003, Per I. Mathisen wrote:

> The AI uses ICS but not smallpox. It also uses ICS inefficiently, compared
> to the best players out there. I have a patch to improve this that has not
> gotten in yet.
> 
> Have you tried going to war against 14 AIs in CVS HEAD? Even if you
> disable diplomacy for AI, you should have much more trouble with this now
> than with 1.14.1.

I don't go to war, they do. I simply try to defend long enough to build my 
supercities. If/when I find my phalanxes cannot hold out against their 
offensive units I'll go steal gunpowder or tactics or somesuch but 
basically I play turtle as I never have any decent attack chances until 
the endgame - after finally stealing howitzers. But by then I usually find 
even howitzers not much fun or use, too awkward and clunky, easier to use 
spies and just buy cities. Although eventually there usually does come a 
time when it is necessary to put several howitzers into a transport, build 
the Apolo Project to find out where my main opponent's capital is, and go 
do a surgical strike at their capital...

I am thinking though that with AI diplomacy I am not likely to survive 
that long. Already in 1.14 I sometimes got some nasty harrasment from 
transports carrying howitzers before I had manage to put riflemen or 
alpine troops in my coastal cities. I suspect that with AI diplomacy I 
might find it hard to survive the ironclads/destroyers era. I might even 
be foreced to actually go the horsemen/feudalism/tactics route instead of 
the railroad/industrialisation/electronics route...

-MarkM-

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