[Freeciv-Dev] Re: (PR#12572) Cleanup of hunter code

["Per I. Mathisen" <per@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

<URL: http://bugs.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=12572 >

On Mon, 21 Mar 2005, Mike Kaufman wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 21, 2005 at 04:49:11AM -0800, Per I. Mathisen wrote:
> > I got tired of seeing the AI assigns mech inf as hunters, so I added
> > hints in the ruleset for which types of units are allowed as hunters.
>
> I thought that we were going to get rid of ruleset hints and such for AI.

What gave you that impression?

> I think we're going in the wrong direction here...

I do not see why ruleset hints is a bad idea as such, as long as they are
clear, concise and human readable, so that ruleset authors have no problem
using them.

Ruleset hints can save enormous amounts of CPU time. We could instead ask
the AI to analyze rulesets and assign such hints at runtime, as we
currently do with buildings.ruleset and effects, but this is complicated
and bug-prone. Feel free to prove me wrong, though.

  - Per