Freeciv

Currently, the 'variant2' modpack's variant2.serv file looks like this:

rulesetdir              variant2

cheating

; Explicitly create 6 threaded AI players
create "" threaded
create "" threaded
create "" threaded
create "" threaded
create "" threaded
create "" threaded

I assume the intent is that the default AIs for the ruleset are 'cheating' and 'threaded' ones. (And perhaps it would ideally want all AIs to be like that, including barbarians and so on.)

If there were regular server settings that controlled a newly created AI's defaults, then these commands in the .serv file would be unnecessary (and perhaps we could abolish ruleset selection by .serv file -- see #858204 for why that's desirable).

There would still be a place for the current special server AI level commands /cheating and so on -- as well as changing the default for new AIs, they modify all existing ones. And that's a useful thing for the client AI selection to do.

(Gna patch #3321 suggested making the AI module type a server setting, but not for this reason. It points out that there's no way to control the AI module for civil war players, barbarians, and so on; this would help with that too.)