[Freeciv-Dev] Re: (PR#13211) RFC: redesign of aifill system

["Jason Short" <jdorje@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

<URL: http://bugs.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=13211 >

Marko Lindqvist wrote:
> <URL: http://bugs.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=13211 >
> 
> Jason Short wrote:
> 
>><URL: http://bugs.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=13211 >
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>>Here is a patch.
>>
>>aifill is left as a server setting, but now it is immediate.  When you
>>first set it, AI players are created or removed to bring the total to
>>the given number.  Then later any time a player is created or removed,
>>the aifill is updated again.  This means if you join a game and aifill
>>5, you'll immediately get 4 extra AI players.  If another human joins
>>then one of the players is removed.
> 
> 
>   I have no time to actually test, but what difficult level AI players 
> are if:
> 
>   1) 3 Human players connect
>   2) /easy
>   3) /set aifill 6
>   4) /hard
>   5) /create hard_player
>   6) 1 Human player disconnects
> 
>   As a player I would expect all aifill players to be easy (I set 
> difficulty level to hard only in order to generate _one_ hard AI).

The behavior of /hard is unchanged.  /hard retroactively changes all
existing AI player difficulty levels, so all players will be hard.

Note that the /create call in the above example is useless.  hard_player
is created but immediately "automatically" removed afterwards.  This is
what I meant by saying create and remove are basically made obsolete.
So even if the commands behaved the way you thought, you'd get all
players easy and none hard.

-jason