give ai their own logfile

[Canderel]

I suggest that ai get it's own logfile. Logfiles are becoming pretty big, but about 50% of it or more is ai messages. That big a contribution deserves its own logfile.

[Canderel]

bump!

I had an 85mb log file... I think moving the AI out would make it easier for us to see when issues occur what occurred, smaller to attach and search through, etc.

[lukep]

Do you have a good idea for how to keep time between the two different logs? That is the main issue that I see with the proposed change. For example, you wouldn't know if the monster tried to retreat (or heal, or recover etc...) before or after you hit it with an attack (or moved, or summoned, or healed, or another monster showed up).

[tiger_eye]

At the very least, it would be nice if all AI messages had a "[AI]" tag at the beginning of the message in the standard log file. That way, one could easily filter out AI messages (`grep -v '^.AI' log.out`) or look at only the AI messages (`grep '^.AI' log.out`).

[Hedrachi]

Do you have a good idea for how to keep time between the two different logs? That is the main issue that I see with the proposed change. For example, you wouldn't know if the monster tried to retreat (or heal, or recover etc...) before or after you hit it with an attack (or moved, or summoned, or healed, or another monster showed up).

Timestamp the AI stuff and where it would be in the main log? Could also use "game turn since creation/last load" counter as a unique identifier for AI calculations. E.g.:

te4_log.txt would have:

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AI report: naga psyren 21456 (UTC)

Which would respond to this entry in ai_log.txt

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============================== TACTICAL AI	naga psyren 21456 (UTC)
naga psyren	21456	tactical ai talents testing	Silence	T_SILENCE
naga psyren	21456	tactical ai talents testing	Mana Pool	T_MANA_POOL
naga psyren	21456	tactical ai talents testing	Equilibrium Pool	T_EQUILIBRIUM_POOL
naga psyren	21456	tactical ai talents testing	Attack	T_ATTACK
naga psyren	21456	tactical ai talents testing	Rune: Heat Beam	T_RUNE:_HEAT_BEAM_2
naga psyren	21456	tactical ai talents testing	Infusion: Heroism	T_INFUSION:_HEROISM_1
naga psyren	21456	tactical ai talents can use	Infusion: Heroism	T_INFUSION:_HEROISM_1	buff	weight	24.769598150092
naga psyren	21456	tactical ai talents testing	Mind Sear	T_MIND_SEAR
naga psyren	21456	tactical ai talents testing	Mind Disruption	T_MIND_DISRUPTION
naga psyren	21456	tactical ai talents testing	Telekinetic Blast	T_TELEKINETIC_BLAST
Tactical ai report for	naga psyren