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Old April 16th, 2004, 03:24 PM
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Default Re: SUGGESTION: AI castle building algorithm

"thinking costs":
I'm concerned about the needed cpu time to re-calculate the "desirability" for each province each turn.

Maybe I can come up with a simple solution that generalizes most cases when you can barely build a castle but prefer to do so over building troops.


choke points
d) has 4 land neighbours, of which 2 are not owned AND not neighbouring owned provinces

.. doesn't this qualify?

[ April 16, 2004, 14:35: Message edited by: Arralen ]
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