I haven't really been following this, but from what I can see, I agree that
just having it off by default would work.


On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 10:44 AM, Iurii Chernyi <[email protected]>wrote:

> Hello,
> If the "save gold on" default is not what most of the scenario creators
> expect, I'd say that it would be better to have "save gold off" default,
> just because it's better aligned with what people expect.
>
> So my vote is to make it off by default.
> On Jan 6, 2014 9:59 PM, "Matthias Schoeck" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Hello All,
>>
>> In Wesnoth 1.11.7, a new AI recruitment candidate action was introduced
>> as result of flix' GSoC project that has many advantages over the old one.
>> If you are not familiar with it, see
>> http://wiki.wesnoth.org/AI_Recruitment
>>
>> The one controversial issue (as least as far as I have seen) is that the
>> AI now saves gold under certain circumstances, which people have argued
>> should not be the default.  See:
>> http://forums.wesnoth.org/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=39700
>> There's also been a positive comment about this (in another thread):
>> http://forums.wesnoth.org/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=39622#p565131
>> (see last comment on first page; the first comment on the second page
>> doesn't really seem to refer to recruiting).
>>
>> Note that nobody has argued that this is not a good and useful feature in
>> general, the discussion is entirely about whether it should be the default.
>>
>> I believe that we should really make a decision about this for the 1.11.9
>> release, so please weigh in here if you have an opinion.  I'll start with
>> mine:
>>
>> From what I have seen so far, the new gold-saving scheme does not make
>> the AI play better, make scenarios work better or "be more fun" all
>> around.  It seems to do so for some scenarios and has the opposite effect
>> in others.  It does, however, require a certain fraction of scenarios to be
>> rebalanced which, given the number of scenarios out there between mainline
>> and UMC, is a lot of work.  So, my current vote would be to go back to the
>> old default (no gold saving).
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Matthias (mattsc)
>>
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