AI Meter Updating

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Geoff the Medio
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AI Meter Updating

#1 Post by Geoff the Medio »

It is necessary for AI clients to update meter estimates and discrepancies each turn?

In AIInterface::InitTurn, there are lines

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        InitMeterEstimatesAndDiscrepancies();
        UpdateMeterEstimates();
        UpdateResourcePools();
Are these all necessary for proper functioning of the AI? Perhaps it would be fine just using whatever meter values the server sends, and doesn't need to redo the meter updating and calculating of discrepancies as is done for the human client?

If it can be skipped, it could save a bunch of AI processing time each turn, and remove a potential crash due to launching a bunch of threads to do the meter calculations.

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Dilvish
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Re: AI Meter Updating

#2 Post by Dilvish »

Sounds worth experimenting with. I'll bookmark this for my todo list.
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