[Torcs-ng-devel] Simple robot and human driver skilling

Hi, Xavier and all.

 > Something else, I thought modified too the skill.xml, in the extra directory, 
 > following the config player (rookie, semi-pro, pro, ...)

Xavier's idea seems simple, concrete and easy to implement ...

what do you think about directly linking the human driver skill level
(rookie, amateur, semi-pro, pro) to the "global" robot skill level
stored in config/raceman/extra/skill.xml ?

As an example :
- rookie   => 10.0
- amateur  =>  6.0
- semi-pro =>  3.0
- pro      =>  0.0

The <user settings dir>/config/raceman/extra/skill.xml file would be updated
in the above described way in the code of one of the race configuration menus
(one for each race type). In case of multiple human players (it may happen),
I propose to retain the most skilled human driver ...

A better solution would be to add a new input control for the global
robots' skill level (values from 0 to N) in the race configuration menu
(the one where the race duration, number of laps, ... are specified),
and to use the above described rule to set the value of N
(the upper limit of the global robots' skill level accessible to the user).

What do you think ?

Cheers,

Jean-Philippe.