Re: (PR#10216) AI Builds Too Many Transports

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Benedict,

On Tue, 5 Oct 2004, Benedict Adamson wrote:

> > its seems that kill_something_with function is failing to use the 
> > available (free) ferries.
> ...
> I'm trying a fix of using aiferry_find_boat instead of find_boat in 
> kill_something_with. This seems to fix the problem. I'll test it further 
> tomorrow, then submit a patch.

I would rather go the other way.  We should manage the boat building on 
the centralized level.  This will allow k_s_w not care about actually 
finding a boat, if it really wants a boat, one would be found/built for 
it.  It would take take some time to make this system robust, but it is 
the way forward I feel.

Among other reasons for it, aiferry_find_boat is a PF-based function and 
should not be called too often.

For "centralized boat building" patch see ticket 8992 (I will send in the 
latest patch in a minute).  Please help me in bringing this patch up 
to standards, testing it and using the latests technology (ocean numbers 
+ Per's ocean connectivity patch).

Best wishes,
Gr