Re: AI is really confused about wonders

On Thu, 10 Feb 2005, Benoit Hudson wrote:

> On Fri, Feb 11, 2005 at 01:04:46AM +0100, Lo'oris wrote:
> > all this sound both like "AI+wonder system should need very a big patch
> > to completely change its behaviour about that" and like "There are more
> > important issues" (and i agree).
> >
> > anyway, just to try to improve this aspect of the game, i could start
> > writing some logic pseudo-code or algorythms that could eventually be
> > turned into code if somebody wants to...
> 
> I'm thinking we should have a market-based system on the civ-wide scale
> for choosing what to build, basically: what's the benefit of building
> this wonder / improvement / unit?  What's the cost (including switching
> costs)?  For things that can only be built once (wonders), only the one
> with best benefit - cost should build it; others should build something
> else instead.
> 
> And then we need a way not to oscillate.
> 
>         -- Benoît
I was searching through the code and didn't find anything that counts lost 
shields when changing the production. So I think AI doesn't care if it 
looses few hundred shields when switching from wonder to f.e. Costal 
defence.
This is major problem. 
 

--
mateusz