[Freeciv-Dev] Re: (PR#14923) Stupid AI Building Wants

["Randy Kramer" <rhkramer@xxxxxxxxx>]

<URL: http://bugs.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=14923 >

On Monday 13 March 2006 04:06 am, Per I. Mathisen wrote:
> Actually, I do not think the current AI design of letting each city decide
> for itself what is the best course of action is very sound.

+1  (In fact, I don't see how it could be.)

Digression: I'm guessing that at the current time the AI algorithm is the same 
for all players/nations?  I think it would be interesting to have a way to 
set up different AI algoithms for each nation and then let them play each 
other--among other things to start seeing which algorithms are "best".  

In fact, the games might be played somehow with graphics and animation turned 
off to speed up the playing (although having the facility to go back and 
replay parts of the game with graphics and animation turned on might be 
helpful to understand the results). 

Is the freeciv code anywhere close to a condition where:
   * separate AI modules could be installed for each player?
   * graphics/animation could be disabled to speed up game play, but 
re-enabled to view parts of the game history?

Randy Kramer