AI runs out of wood in desert

[wl-zocker]

When the AI has a starting position near to a desert where trees grow very badly, it runs easy out of wood. As an example, you can play the map "The big lake", watch the sixth player (brown).

I have two ideas:
1. Foresters should preferredly be built on grass (or at least not in desert). If they have planted some trees that grow, the AI will decide to build a lumberjack near those trees.

2. The AI should give the constructionsites of lumberjacks (and maybe foresters) a priority for trunks (maybe also for stone and blackwood/wood/planks if needed). If the AI is short on trunks, this will help to get out of that problem faster.

[SirVer (sirver)]

Setting to incomplete for bug sweeping.

[wl-zocker (wl-zocker)]

This is hopefully fixed by Tibor's AI branch (he has worked on the way the computerplayers deal with wood IIRC).

[SirVer (sirver)]

Is this fixed tibor?

[TiborB (tiborb95)]

'Wood economy' - was much improved, f.e. I just run the mentioned map and AI (6th player) within first 20 minutes built 3 lumberjacs and 4 rangers. There is still a lot of room for improvement though.
As for type of soil vs buildings built there - the AI (old and my new) does not check this at all. It might be usefull, for farms or so. But when talking about desert maps, I am not sure if using scarce grass for trees is the best idea...

So wl-zocker or whoever is interested can check the current behavior.... now it is rather finetuning then complete rework.

[SirVer (sirver)]

fix committed until somebody has the same problem again.

[GunChleoc (gunchleoc)]

Fixed in build19-rc1.