Atlantean AI can handle Citadel villages in forests only

[spth]

The Atlantean AI can handle Citadel villages in forests only. I have seen this problem in both build16 and bzr6277. An example from bzr 6277 can be found in the savegame at http://pholia.tdi.informatik.uni-frankfurt.de/%7Ephilipp/widelands/LR17%25201.wgf and replay at http://pholia.tdi.informatik.uni-frankfurt.de/~philipp/widelands/2012-03-02T21:18:44%20singleplayer.wrpl and http://pholia.tdi.informatik.uni-frankfurt.de/~philipp/widelands/2012-03-02T21:18:44%20singleplayer.wrpl.wgf

When there is only a moderate number of trees near the start position, the Atlantean AI fails for Citadel villages: It just runs out of wood. The AI of all other tribes and the Atlantean AI with default starting conditions will build rangers to plant more trees in time. But the Atlantean AI with a Citadel village won't.

I know the AI is not very smart, and probably needs a major overhaul or rewrite. Nevertheless, this issue makes the AI fail right from the start, so I think it should be fixed before.

Philipp

[Hans Joachim Desserud (hjd)]

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[SirVer (sirver)]

Setting to incomplete for bug sweeping.

[wl-zocker (wl-zocker)]

The problem is that the Atlantean AI builds many buildings (spiderfarm, weaving mill, later a farm) and only one woodcutter. When the trees in the area are cut down, it does not build a second woodcutter nor a forester (or does not have enough material). The other tribes build less buildings. (Tested in r6968.)
I think the AI should make foresters a higher priority than they are now.
However, Tibor is currently working on the AI (https://code.launchpad.net/~tiborb95/widelands/tiborb-ai). Maybe the problem is already solved in his branch.

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[SirVer (sirver)]

Tibor, can you comment on this? Do you think it is fixed?

[TiborB (tiborb95)]

Indeed I noticed the same problem right now, so it is not fixed. I will take care that it will behave better in my current development AI branch. In fact I do not test villages this is why I did not notice that problem.

[TiborB (tiborb95)]

I think we can consider this as fixed.

[GunChleoc (gunchleoc)]

Fixed in build19-rc1.