Update SpecificUnitAutomation.kt #12992
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I'm against this, most players play the default tileset and this solves a problem in niche tilesets while making the general AI worse. |
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More cities generally make the AI stronger, I don't think it too bad in terms of playing strength, it's more of a tradeoff between having more cringe cities in base game vs not being able to found cities at all with unusual map settings/mod. The 50 points cutoff what chosen a long time ago when the AI could still see invisible resources (lots of points from those resources), the complaint about snow maps quite specifically states this behaviour didn't use to be the case some time ago, maybe I could verify if they provided a safe file. |
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Also, city states moving instead of settling t1 is considered a bit of a problem nowadays. |
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I have no problem for city states to settle their first city immediately |
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| if (newCityTile.hasViewableResource(civ) && newCityTile.tileResource.resourceType == ResourceType.Bonus) tileValue -= 8 | |||
| // Settling on bonus resources tends to waste a food | |||
| // Settling on luxuries generally speeds up our game, and settling on strategics as well, as the AI cheats and can see them. | |||
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| tileValue -= civ.cities.size * 5 | |||
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This will mean that at 20 cities I'll basically be able to settle nowhere, no?
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Yes, it's a cap on the number of cities.
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Why would we want to disable AI from settling anywhere after X cities?
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The threshold for minimum tile score needs to be lower than 50 points, so the AI will settle also with bad spawn or weird ruleset/weird map settings, but them sprawling cities on empty snow/tundra/desert is not something a human would do and it feels 'unnatural' to the user. Setting the threshold low and increasing with more cities is maybe a way to balance these two problems.
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Yes, but this config would have them not sprawl even on super good tiles, which is also unnatural
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How do I look up the average value of land tiles on the map? The best way then may be to let the AI calculate this for the whole map, and then use that to set a baseline for minimum tile quality.
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I agree, that is a much better idea! 👍🏿
Since this is basically static, we can even save it on the map itself, on map generation :)
Resolves https://discord.com/channels/586194543280390151/1071804673956266096/1334462051774369895 in my testing, and hopefully also https://discord.com/channels/586194543280390151/676559694864842766/1341517147310129276. The drawback is that the AI will probably found more crappy tundra/snow cities when this isn't needed, a better way to go about it may be to take into account the average tile yield on the map.