Developing a bot about freecol HOT 2 OPEN

If you change some code you could probably make an AI only game.

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For testing, I just move the player units into the top right corner and let the AIs run. A full observer player type does not exist, but is probably not that hard to do.

I have speculated as to what would be needed to make an actually good AI/bot. It could be done, just look at what google have done with Starcraft. However I am not google's AI group:-) so I doubt the full ML method is within scope ATM. OTOH, perhaps something that needs less than a basement full of smoking CPUs to train might be possible. The good news is that to do better than the current AI is not a high bar.

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