Re: AI Position of First Cities

Jason Dorje Short wrote:

> Ed Earl Ross wrote:
>
>> The choice of city start positions by AI by  Freeciv 2.0.0 appears 
>> incorrect.
>>
>> For example, AI moved a settler from a plains-wheat f/p/t=3/1/0 tile 
>> to a grassland 2/0/0 tile before founding a city.  If it had founded 
>> the city on the plains wheat tile, the total production for the city 
>> would have been plains-wheat 3/1/1 plus forest-pheasant 2/2/0 for a 
>> total of 5/3/1. After the AI move, the total production for the city 
>> was 2/0/1 plus 2/2/0 for a total of 4/2/1, which limits the 
>> production of new settlers early in the game. This fact means AI play 
>> during startup is less than optimal.
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>
> See, you found some really stupid behavior already ;-).

QA folks should never use judgmental words about developers or their 
code. It's not good to have fights between QA and developers.

>
> Try to make a savegame from right before this behavior occurs, and 
> send it to bugs-0/[email protected]
>
> jason
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>
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There are four settlers in the attached saved game. My comments about 
them, from left to right.

*Leftmost*--moves AOK

*Left-center*--??? Moves from one grassland to another, each f/p/t = 
2/0/0. Looks like it is aligning itself on a diagonal with the leftmost 
settler. A questionable move, as it does not immediately improve production.

*Right-center*--OK. Moves twice before founding a city; thereby 
optimizing city growth. This is probably a good move; although, it 
reduces total city production.

*Rightmost*--??? Moves off plains-wheat 3/1/0 to plains 1/1/0, which 
cannot be the best move, as it reduces growth for no offsetting  benefit.

This game is not the best example, I've seen. I'll look for another.