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) >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wesnoth-dev mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/wesnoth-dev >> >> > _______________________________________________ > Wesnoth-dev mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/wesnoth-dev > >
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