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Hi, i closed your PRs as you didn't reply for some months. Feel free to reopen them. Nice that you work on this. I also had plans to use AI to improve the Petra. (Not to integrate it but to use it to see where Petra is bad at.) Integrating it that much goes (for me) against the free software philosophy. Every code should be possible to understand. You want the AI to choose a strategy. But you also want the AI to say when to end an attack (fall back) and how a hero should fight. Thous seem pretty different tasks. I think it's bad to solve both with the same system. Currently there are starting-strategies witch are chosen from. It would be good when you take a look there. Maybe you can extend that. The model you choose takes language as "state". Yes it can be json formated and yes it's multilingual but i'm not sure it understands something like {"type":"repair","entities":[177],"target":4030,"autocontinue":true,"queued":false,"pushFront":false,"formation":"special/formations/null"} Why? There has recently been a PR wanting to do a similar thing for Petra. As i remember it the conclusion was to not continue the plan for now. I don't think that it is possible to do it in a mod.

The commands.txt is from a 0.28.0. I can't reproduce the error (with that version).

We now try to release roughly at the same date each year. We don't wait till all issues with that milestone get implemented. We would push them back. Almost certainly there will be no new civ in the next release.

I don't want to argue in favour of removing support for devices, but... Most arguments are silly (or in Lundukes language: hilarious) "There are issues reported for drivers with no known issues." Yes that's why the issues are reported... "The year 2002. Very very recent in my opinion." When the hardware support is now removed and the already released kernels get supported for maybe 5 years (I think that's how that works), It will be supported for 30 years. I wouldn't call that "Very very recent". "The drivers haven't do be updated in years and years and years" When there is no one maintaining it there is software rot. "Wasn't the point of using AI to make development more efficient‽" AI is used to find bugs and to write code. When the kernel developers wouldn't use AI to find bugs someone else would. When they wouldn't use AI do write code - yes - they would be less efficient. "Back in the days every week we said that something became supported by Linux" Maybe you could do the same thing now.

It would also be nice when they are weaker/capturable from that side.

The starting position and the lakes are similar to "Pyrenean Sierra". Maybe you can base your map on that.

I don't understand the argument. The difficulty of AIs is independent of teams.

What's the point of more teams? When there are more then 4 teams at least one player is a lone in a team. So it has the same effect as to assign no team to that player.

I think that the current Egypt(3v3) should be turned, so that the fertile land is in the foreground and the mountains in the back.

Nice that there are already two starting positions for Petra

Removing an invocation of `pickRandom` doesn't invalidate another. (Worst case is that in DE the AI might not be serializeable.) I tried to bisect it but wasn't successful there are always like 10 units idle.

Sorry for the late reply. Maybe you can find something in this PR. In there are many commits, so bisect should help a lot.

I can't reproduce that. But I noticed that the map isn't revealed after loading.

That's indeed an issue. Thanks for reporting.

That's because it first chooses the placement, without knowing whether the map supports it.