[Freeciv-Dev] Re: (PR#9596) Better nation selection

["Jason Short" <jdorje@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

<URL: http://rt.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=9596 >

Mateusz Stefek wrote:
> <URL: http://rt.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=9596 >
> 
> About a year ago I wrote a patch which made AI select nation from the  
> same class as user. (PR#3751)
> 
> Unfortunately it doesn't work as I expected. When I choose Persians AI  
> picks Boers just because these nations are in the same class  
> (historical).
> If AI knew something about the history of the real world it could  
> probably choose more inteligently.
> Attached patch adds two new fields into the nation struct:  
> founding_year and collapse_year. When AI chooses nation it tries to  
> minimalize the sum of "time distance" between nations.

Is this overkill?  Feature creep?  How does it relate to the 
civilwar_nations?

jason