pioneersai — Computer player for Pioneers

Synopsis

pioneersai [ -s server ] [ -p port ] -n name
      [ -a algorithm ] [ -t milliseconds ] [ -c ]

Description

This manual page documents briefly the pioneersai command.

Pioneers is an emulation of the Settlers of Catan board game which can be played over the internet. This is a computer player implementation that can take part in Pioneers games.

Options

-s,--server server
Connect to a pioneers game running on server.
-p,--port port
Connect to a pioneers game running on port.
-n,--name name
Specify name of the computer player.
-a,--algorithm algorithm
Specify algorithm of the computer player. The algorithms for active partipants in a game are "greedy" and "genetic". The default algorithm is "greedy". Other allowed values are: lobbybot, logbot.
--chromosome-file filename
The filename for the file that contains the chromosome for the "genetic" algorithm. When not specified, the default chromosome is used.
-t,--time milliseconds
Time to wait between turns, in milliseconds. Default is 1000.
-c,--chat-free
Do not chat with other players.
--debug
Enable debug messages.
--version
Show version information.

Author

This manual page was written by Jeff Breidenbach <jab@debian.org>, and updated by Roland Clobus <rclobus@rclobus.nl>. Pioneers was written by Dave Cole <dave@dccs.com.au>, Andy Heroff <aheroff@mediaone.net>, and Roman Hodek <roman@hodek.net>, with contributions from many other developers on the Internet; see the AUTHORS file in the pioneers distribution for a complete list of contributing authors.