Thought process of a colonizer

[Hans Ronne]

>So, does it make sense to anyone?  Any questions or comments?

I think most of what you wrote makes sense. If you want to do some xconq
hacking, you can always look at good_cell_to_colonize and check if any of
your ideas can be added by modifying the current code.

There is a problem with letting all colonizers consider all visible cells
every turn, though, and that is the CPU load. Even on a fast computer, this
would slow down things to a crawl. That's why the colonizers now look only
at the cell they are standing in. Possible, one could extend this to a
small patch around the colonizer, but anything more than a handful of cells
is going to spell trouble, particularly if all the stuff you propose also
is added to the algorithm.

Hans

Hans Ronne

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