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

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

<URL: http://rt.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=11038 >

Benoit Hudson wrote:

><URL: http://rt.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=11038 >
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>>[edearl@xxxxxxxxxxx - Tue Nov 16 13:59:28 2004]:
>>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.
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>>It's good that code has already been written, and partly debugged to 
>>make use of the settlers :)
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>Wasn't there also a recent ticket (which I can't find) saying explorers
>never requested ferries to unexplored islands?  This might fix the
>problem, as long as there's ferries to build, and land to explore.
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Yes, I read it in README.AI. It is a curious TODO. I understand that AI 
players can see the entire freeciv world. Why is it necessary for AI to 
use explorers?

>Otherwise, this just argues for code to move defenders around, which I
>gather doesn't currently exist, but is on the wishlist.
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Good, it is on the list already.

I have downloaded the cvs tree, and am ready to submit a change for 
INSTALL. In the future, I plan to work on the AI code, too. First, I 
must sync my concept of things to be done with the other AI developers, 
learn the code & documentation, and get to know folks.

I haven't quite caught on to how and who commits changes.

Do folks just submit possible changes, whereupon a guru decides whether 
to commit them, or
is there a master plan folks follow to make upgrades, or ....