[Freeciv-Dev] Re: (PR#11005) Question about Freeciv 2.0.0 (maybe)

["Ed Earl Ross" <edearl@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

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Jason Short wrote:

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>Ed Earl Ross wrote:
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>>I'd call this behavior an AI kludge. It is important to human players 
>>who play against AI, because it gives AI an advantage, and thereby 
>>changes the dynamics of humans playing AI between 1.14.x and 2.0.x. If 
>>it is too much of an advantage, it may make AI players too powerful.
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>So to balance AI players being able to cheat we should allow human 
>players to cheat as well?  That hardly seems logical.
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Clearly, if AI super-human game "knowledge" makes the AI player better 
than any human, something must be done to let humans play and sometimes 
win against AI. I didn't specify a solution; though, the better solution 
is to improve the AI code so it can follow the same rules as humans. 

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>>I assume that this advantage is given because humans are better players 
>>than current AI players. In general, this is an inferior technique for 
>>making AI players better, but making a good and honest AI player is 
>>difficult.
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>Yes, yes, and yes.
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>jason
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