On 06.10.2012 07:36, Michael T. Pope wrote:
> Its taking forever to completely stabilize, but I am hoping to finally
> commit the reworked TransportMission soon. It still does some odd
> things, and my automated testing can only get us so far, but it is now
> at least reliably running overnight without crashing, and is
> completing 50-70% more transports than the existing code.
That sounds like a serious improvement.
> The known
> remaining issues are:
>
> - An intermittant serialization bug. I think I know what that is, and
> the current test run contains a fix. This one is gating the commit.
>
Ah, the joys of serialization!
> - EuropeanAIPlayer.cheat() has been revised. Hopefully now the AIs will
> be less prone to acquire several frigates early in the game, and
> more likely to cheat-build transport units if it needs them. If
> they still do silly stuff, well, logging has been improved so we can
> see why it happened.
>
> However, because we have so many complaints about the AI cheating, I
> think it would be good to provide some user control of the amount of
> cheating. All the cheating in EuropeanAIPlayer.cheat() is
> effectively of the form:
>
> if (random(N) == 0) cheat!
>
> It would not be too hard to expose the N as options. Any thoughts?
>
I suggest five levels of cheating, changing the code to
if (random(number_of_levels) < cheat_level) cheat!
In the long run, I envisage an AI so brilliant that it doesn't really
cheat at all. However, the player should be able to select a subsidy to
be paid to the AI each turn, in order to make the game harder if desired.
> - Still some lurking issues with the path finding code. Lots of
> changes have happened, its not a surprise.
>
> - Sometimes, a transport stopped one tile short of a colony and dumped
> all its cargo in the ocean. Very galling. Have not seen this for
> a bit, but not entirely convinced its gone.
>
> - 70% more transports is nice, but I think it can do better.
>
>
> Its a big patch, touching much of the AI, so this is the warning that
> there might be a bit of a rough ride in trunk this week.
>
> Cheers,
> Mike Pope
>
Go for it.
Regards
Michael
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