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NAME

       pioneersai - AI 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 an AI player  implementation  that
       can take part in Pioneers games.

OPTIONS

       -s server   Connect to a pioneers game running on server.

       -p port     Connect to a pioneers game running on port.

       -n name     Specify  name of AI player. Leave absent for a random name.

       -a algorithm
                   Specify algorithm of AI player. The only possible value  is
                   "greedy"

       -t milliseconds
                   Time  to  wait  between  turns, in milliseconds. Default is
                   1000.

       -c          Do not chat with other players.

ENVIRONMENT

       The default settings of the AI can be  influenced  with  the  following
       environment variable:

       PIONEERS_DIR
              The  path  to the file with player names.  If it is not set, the
              default installation path will be used.

FILES

       /usr/share/games/pioneers/computer_names
              A list of names the AI can use

AUTHOR

       This manual page was written by Jeff Breidenbach <jab@debian.org>,  and
       updated  by  Roland Clobus <rclobus@bigfoot.com>.  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.

SEE ALSO

       pioneers(6), pioneers-server-gtk(6), pioneers-server-console(6)