NTai Clean n Trim Thread

[AF]

What features of NTai are utterly useless and can be removed safely, or should be re-implemented as their current implementation is rubbish?

And I know about solobuild before anyone mentions it!

Removed already:

• .aicheat command and tracking of the commanders name and id
• Hard coded targetting values in configs
• The debug spinning triangles
• A tonne of code bloat
• Some buggy builder unit retreating code

Proposed removals

• DT Rings placement
• Solo build and single build
• The building plan tracking system

Intended re-implementations

• Build task planning system
• Following above single build and solo build eventually
• Threat matrix targetting algorithm

Intended Refactors and additions

• Move as much logic out of the Global class as is humanely possible into proper mutually exclusive objects with roles (already under way)
• Better Building placement API with a more generic system to ease maintenance and bloat, this will mean geothermal and radar placement will have to be re-factored heavily
• Refactors of behaviours and tasks including task factories and behaviour managers (70% done)
• Removal of the boost::shared_ptr mess and said dependency (80% done)

What changes are wanted/needed/suggested aside from those? I'm not giving an ETA on when all this will be done, and I intend to freeze support for spring on a stable spring release to reduce continuous maintenance if I can. I may update it from time to time if people ar eusing ti and the cost isnt too great, or just on a whim.

[Argh]

Looks good to me. Especially getting it de-spaghetti'd would be useful, for porting it forward, once the Great AI Interface Rework is reasonably stable.

[AF]

The spaghetti bit is easy, its the bolognese one has to be careful about

[Argh]

Hey, if I can look at it and know what bit's cat and what bit's horse, it's fine, and I think a lot of people would want to look at it and learn from it at that point, it'd be less scary than KAIK internally.

[1v0ry_k1ng]

if you remove single+solo build it'll really hurt the ability to make good configs

[AF]

Currently the solobuild and single build implementations have attracted nothing but claims that they dont actually work, so removal of the entire algorithm and subsequent re-implementation in a properly design task system would be needed.

Nonetheless a stable and well laid out NTai is the priority here. I want other people to be able to dip into the code, and right now its an intimidating jumble in many places, and an orderly laid out machine in others. Consistency!!!

[1v0ry_k1ng]

work fasterer !!