[Freeciv-Dev] Re: (PR#11038) AI Use of Explorers

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

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Per I. Mathisen wrote:

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>On Tue, 16 Nov 2004, Ed Earl Ross wrote:
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>>After AI explorers have finished exploration and having found nobody
>>else on their island, the explorers go to a city and stay there
>>forever--never to be used again. A better use of these expended
>>explorers is to use them to hasten building additional settlers, in
>>cities that produce settlers slower than population increase.
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>Yes, quite possibly. I added code to that effect some time ago, but
>removed it since it was buggy - explorers were disbanded when stopping in
>a city on its way through to explore somewhere else. But now we have info
>in aidata that tells us if we have explored our continent fully, so we can
>avoid this problem.
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>However, I do not agree the explorers are entirely useless. They are free
>defenders :)
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I considered that they were defenders. However, all go to the same city, 
and do not move to protect cities in potential danger. If they are to be 
used as defenders, they should be moved to protect cities near to 
foreign cities. Often, these excess settlers are in an interior city 
that is unlikely to be attacked until late in the game.

It's good that code has already been written, and partly debugged to 
make use of the settlers :)

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