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This fine, Sunday afternoon I'm messing around with making animation run smoother. In the process, I discovered something -- the AI's moves can get aborted in some instances due to framerate. Just fixed this. Should make a big difference in AI quality, especially late game.
Any chance you could look at ranged AI since you are in the neighborhood? 
Oh, I was only thinking about tactical. Oh well. I just moved bow spells back to infinite range.
Nice to see some AI love, regardless of the type. 
What??? What kind of slapped together architecture does this game have?
This is almost as funny as the last post about "multithreading." LOL!
So the graphics animation canceled AI threads? Wow. Well, the AI keeps getting better.
Love to see improvements to animation. It's not bad, but it does get jerky/choppy on a regular basis, especially late game or with lots of units on screen. Hopefully the 1-tile city system should help.
AI upgrades are always good.
I was playing galciv 2 yesterday and gosh the AI is good. Hope you can get it as good.
I believe it has "beta" architecture. 
There will always be bugs, no matter how good the architecture. In this case, it was a matter of synchronizing animation with the turn ending when in different threads.
That explains it. Good to know the root cause. And bugs and beta go hand-in-hand. And I also think the SD community is particularly good at finding edge cases! 
Is this the bug I reported about some AI troops moving to some random tile in the game and then just staying there for the rest of the game and never moving from that spot?
No. This would be a mid game thing where the units are only moving every other turn.
Seems to me like sometimes when an army no longer has its current mission, it will just stop and sit for the rest of the game. For example an army in my territory when I make peace. It will just stop there forever. I think that is what Trojasmic is experiencing.
Those veterans are just waiting for you to give them their hard-earned land grants...
I had one friendly army that was dead stopped until I cleared out an Earth Elemental Lair. After that he turned away from my territory and went about his business. To me, that would be pathing. I had kicked him out of territory a few times before this.
Actually, I find it rather bothersome that the AI is constantly sending units through my territory. Would like it better if after a unit is kicked, it looks for something else to do, instead of forcing me to do the same thing for 20 turns until my pioneer can get there first and make an outpost. The AI should only think it is possible to move one turn through my territory. Never gonna let them go all the way through. Maybe they should only see anything past that as Water?
I think this should be Dependant on how much the AI player likes you, if he likes you lot he would be careful around your territory, and make arrangements if he needs passage, If he is more neutral he might as well walk for 3 turns through your territory than walk that huge path around the map, If he hates you he should rather disregard your territory (OFC only if he can live through a war, or have a decent chance by computer standards).
Sincerely
~ Kongdej
I'm thinking of making the "kick out" penalty greater -- kicked out units get sent all the way back to their capital. That way, sneaking across someone's territory and getting caught is akin to being deported.
Please do!
Please make the penalty greater, or different, but please reconsider the word "capital"...
Seems kind of an odd feature to boot back to the capital, since that will change over big maps or small maps, it will change whether im behind another player into a third players territory (prolly make me go to war instead) and its all dependant on where my capital is, I would rather see a "closest City", or "outside the borders, but stunned 1-2 turns".
It could also be that if they reenter your territory in the next 4 turns they will automatically declare war.
Also there should be some special action from the AI if I keep entering theyre territory...
As a side topic to how angry they get when i enter territories etc. I hope the AI's Diplomacy will be greatly advanced.
Sincerely
~ Kongdej
Please don't. I think that's a really bad idea. Personally, I would exploit that as a free teleport back to my capital whenever it was about to be attacked. It could also be used as a free teleport all the way back across the map by units exploring far from home. Just too many ways to cheese it, IMO.
Why not introduce a stiff fine for repeat (within x turns) offenders instead? From the offending empire's coffers into the offended's. Helps the offended, hurts the offender. A double disincentive that way and no cheese exploits.
I agree! 
but you can't manipulate the actions of the AI ....
maybe code it to be nearest owned city instead?
(but I really don't see it as an exploit, and it would prevent getting teleported onto some random peninsula/island which makes your units get stuck)
I also would prefer bounced back to nearest own city(of the offender) and stunned for 4 turns as the penalty instead of sent back to capital to capital.
harpo
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