[Freeciv-Dev] Re: (PR#15249) Aggressive AI Could Fight Itself to Obsolence

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

<URL: http://bugs.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=15249 >

On Fri, 17 Mar 2006, Benedict Adamson wrote:
> Here is a patch. I have extracted this patch from my reworking of the
> wants code (PR#14923). This patch should cause the AI to be less stupid
> when it has extreme tax needs. It uses negative feedback to correct the
> tax rate.

Can you be more specific as to what the AI is doing wrong today, and what
the AI is doing right with the patch?

+  if (ai_wants_no_science(pplayer)) {
+    /* Instead of science research, we should purchase things. */
+    f += 20;
+  }

Does this mean that the AI will waste science when it has researched
everything?

+  if (n_cities / 8 < ai->stats.units.upgradeable) {
+    /* We should spend cash on upgrading units */
+    f += 10;
+  }

Instead of guessing this way, could we use the number in
pplayer->ai.maxbuycost generated by the upgrade units code? It tries to
set a desired amount of gold to be raised next turn for upgrades and
purchases.

+/*
+ * Over how many turns to try and smooth out changes in the gold reserves.
+ * WAG

Is there any point in smoothing out changes to the tax settings? I mean,
settings of 100/0/0 then 0/100/0 next turn is just as good as 50/50/0 then
50/50/0?

  - Per