Hi! I have a small sugestion about the AI but I don't know who to talk to. I hope you can at least help me to find the right people. Thanks in advance!
Reading about the AI I noticed many players complain about its strategy. AI will build many small cities and have little interest for improvements. I came to believe this is due to the parameter MORT is the main responsable for it. In advtools.h there is "#define MORT 24". That results in a discount rate of 4,3%, quite high given the return of improvements. If the value of MORT was set to much higher values, we would have much lower discount rates and therefore a different strategy for the AI. I think this value could be set on game start for each AI, same as difficulty level is. This way, the player could set some of the AIs to be rushers (low MORT, high discount rate) and other AIs to be late gamers (high MORT, low discount rate). For players who can't play online often, this would be a great improvement! (Sorry, timezone incompatibility with most players =( ). Or AIs could be assigned random values of MORT at the begining of the game. The important thing is that we could have AI strategy variety within a game. (Strategy variety is not the same as difficulty variety!) Also, in this more heterogeneous environment AI games could be harder. Rusher AI would provide a challenge at the begining and late ones a chalenge at the end. Before making any changes, I think it would be nice to test AIs against each other with different values of MORT for each. With my limited programing skills and knowledge, I can't do it myself... Thanks for any help, Andy
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