AI expansion behavior

[xanaqui42]

This seems stupid, since the center tile is always the same (well, +/- one hammer or coin)
I'm sure it has been changed dramatically in BtS.

Blake did a rewrite of this function and the worker functions (all of which are in Smarter Orcs). Since Blake apparently did a bunch of AI work for BtS, I'd presume that improvements are there.

 

[onedreamer]

I'm sure it has been changed dramatically in BtS.

I wouldn't hold my breath on this, I've seen cities founded on food resources even in BtS. Also, the AI worker placement in BtS is worse than Vanilla. I know it seems hard it could be possibly worse, but it is.

 

[Rex rgis of Ter]

BUT..... their war capabilities are way better now. Serouisly, they are quite good. Not that they could beat me though.

 

[Sureshot]

might be good to modify it so the AI doesnt build on desert or worse, on floodplains

 

[BeefontheBone]

Building ON desert is sensible, at least without the defence penalty being taken into account, which is unlikely since it's not present in vanilla. It does seem to be adding value for center tiles with resources, too, which is usually (but not always) a bad thing.