The new method avoids a lot of path finding that the previous method did, esp. on large maps with many units and/or enemies, leading to significant speed improvements in some cases.
This fixes#6504
This adds the correct behavior for the castle_switch, move_to_any_enemy and place_healers CAs. It was already in place for the other former ExpAI CAs (except for recruiting and spread_poison, for which it does not apply).
This automatically also adds this behavior to the Healer Support Micro AI.
This is done for consistency with similar functions in mainline, and so that the function actual returns what it name says. This breaks backward compatibility, but note that the only practical difference for that is the order in which the arguments are returned, as both 'closest_enemy' and 'location' contain the enemy location in .x/.y format.
The ai_helper functions are optimized for speed (as much as possible in a general setting) and do all the necessary tests. For example, get_units_with_attacks() checks both whether the unit has attacks left, and whether it has any attacks in the first place.
(cherry-picked from commit 75843541bcf92e743b911ef49046c54a050e8a0f)
The relative ranking of the CA scores is not changed, except for one case when two CAs had the same score.
Reasons:
- All scores should be lower than the scores of the default Goto CA (200,000) and the default scores of most Micro AIs (300,000).
- Break tie, resulting in uncertain order of execution, of place_healers and retreat_injured CA. Healers should be placed first, to allow retreating injured units to adjacent hexes.
- Set default for generic_recruit_engine to slightly above default AI recruiting score. That way it takes effect even if the default CA is not removed.
- Increase move_to_any_enemy CA score from 1 to 1,000. It is still the lowest score that way, but allows for setting up custom CAs with even lower scores (even if it is just for end-of-turn statistics or the like).
(cherry-picked from commit 35ba82050954c2cee86321e05d6706993c08e143)
Now that all the AIs use external CAs, there is no need to use the persistent 'data' variable any more, unless information is to be exchanged between different CAs or is supposed to be persistent across save/load cycles.
(cherry-picked from commit 3bfd59f28ba7f70a6ac32782e98cba9ca6c2a44a)
