Re: (PR#10561) Re: AI starts many wonders but never finishes any

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On Sat, 30 Oct 2004, Per I. Mathisen wrote:

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> <URL: http://rt.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=10561 >
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> I think the fundamental problem is that attack unit want is so high that
> it drowns out anything else. For example:
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> want to build Darwins reise with 251
> want to build Fabrikk with 139
> want to build Resirkuleringsstasjon with 116
> want to build Stemmerett for kvinner with 249
> ...
> military advisor choice: Howitzer (want 3934)
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> This bloated value, and this is a rather safe city (danger is 0, urgency
> for some reason is 84), both ensures we don't build any buildings, but
> also that we spend way too much money on buying production with gold.
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> With a little bit of deferred gratification, it could build a Factory,
> then an Mfg Plant and perhaps a power plant, and could pump out attack
> units at a much faster rate.
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> I'm not sure how to fix this problem. If we just increase the want for
> buildings, we might drown out attack units early in the game; similarly
> if we reduce want for attack units. Perhaps a kind of cap on this want
> is needed. Or say that every N item we build should not be an attacker.

Doesn't the AI take into account existing defensive units to decrease
military want?

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Vasco Alexandre da Silva Costa @ Instituto Superior Tecnico, Lisboa