Re: occupant combat in standard game

[Eric McDonald <mcdonald at phy dot cmich dot edu>]

On Mon, 2 Feb 2004, Peter Garrone wrote:

> On Wed, Jan 28, 2004 at 12:11:20PM -0500, Jim Kingdon wrote:
> > The problem is more a case of if I make a surprise attack, the AI
> > doesn't divert any fighters to where my bombers are.  The AI's
> > fighters either (a) didn't get built in sufficient quantity, or (b)
> > are still off near my home territory, or somewhere other than where I
> > am actually attacking.
> 
> This comes from the "compute_damage_ratio" function in plan.c, for the
> standard game. The fighters dont attack the bombers because they have 2
> hp. I have addressed this in my development by factoring in construction
> points as well.

I superceded compute_damage_ratio with 
ai_compute_damage_ratio_vs_type several weeks ago. Furthermore, 
the victim finder has been heavily restructured in the past month, 
and rating of victims is done in a separate set of functions. The 
victim rating takes into account the construction point ratios 
between the victim seeker and potential victim.

You might wish to carefully merge the past month's development 
into your branch, so that we don't have redundant or competing 
code.

But, wrt what Jim is seeing, I believe that this is a 
strategic/planning level issue and not a tactical issue. If a unit 
has an offensive plan, it will generally continue to run the 
victim seeker (and so not the larger picture). What probably needs 
to happen is that plan_offense and plan_defense need to have some 
heuristic which will summarily examine the balances in the 
different theaters, and then force a replan (and new goal) for 
some (higher mobility?) units. I have been thinking about this 
some, but have not yet determined a good way to go about it.

Eric