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FloPinguin f607f6d66b Nations rarely sent boats, now they do! (#2161 )

## Description:

### Nations rarely sent random boats. Now they are sending twice as
many.
It feels right now, not too many and not too few random boats. 
To make sure that small island nations with, for example, 10k troops
don't repeatedly spam boats into an nation with 1.5M troops (that makes
no sense), they no longer send boats to opponents which have more than
twice the amount of troops.

| my optimizations - 27s into the game - `8 Boats active` | openfront.io
live - 27s into the game - `only 2 Boats active` |
| :---:   | :---: | 
| <img width="2560" height="1068" alt="27s into the game - 8 Boats
active"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/258e3d69-d86b-4c68-94ec-ade04c6c18b3"
/>|<img width="2560" height="1068" alt="27s into the game - 2 Boats
active"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/343603d6-e95d-402c-a660-cc54f715d148"
/>|

| my optimizations - 1m20s into the game - `much more boats` |
openfront.io live - 1m20s into the game - `only 4 boats active` |
| :---:   | :---: | 
| <img width="2560" height="1068" alt="1m20s into the game - much more
boats"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/bbe35603-8db4-4d82-af45-c77b8ef0dcbf"
/> | <img width="2560" height="1068" alt="1m20s into the game - 4 boats"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/f698794d-f94f-49fb-a09a-1a89b292456f"
/> |

### There was a bug in the random boat sending. 

It did not check if the target is the player himself.
That caused console warnings and a reduced amount of boat-sending.

### The Hiding-Strategy on small islands on the impossible difficulty is
now harder!

Because the random-boat-sending-method preferred large landmasses
instead of small islands (it randomly selects a valid tile),
human-players could easily hide on them, play a
warship-infestation-strat and nearly NEVER get boat-attacked by nations.

I implemented that the random boat functionality now searches for bots
and untaken tiles before searching for nations / humans. That way, they
will try to take some of these tiny islands before the human-player
does. Also its cool to see nations playing on the entire available
land-tiles instead of just the bigger landmasses.

Fixes #1916 (Please check this issue for screenshots and more info)

| my optimizations - 6m53s into the game - `only 5 islands not taken!` |
openfront.io live - 6m53s into the game - `19 islands not taken!` |
| :---:   | :---: | 
| <img width="1078" height="876" alt="6m53s into the game - 5 islands
not taken!"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/6c103ca1-7d4c-4d0d-948f-3313839302a7"
/> | <img width="1102" height="852" alt="6m53s into the game - 19
islands not taken!"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/01cc512d-71c9-47aa-b4b1-f7cd5123a782"
/> |


| my optimizations - 6m53s into the game - `all islands taken!` |
openfront.io live - 6m53s into the game - `8 islands not taken!` |
| :---:   | :---: | 
| <img width="2154" height="489" alt="6m53s into the game - 0 islands
not taken!"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/fc8000b2-de28-4d47-859d-0cc3c6d28ac3"
/> | <img width="2181" height="317" alt="6m53s into the game - 8 islands
not taken!"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/093243de-f6dc-41ee-ab5e-7e485fe27646"
/>|



### Nations now boat-attack other nations more often!
If there are two nations on two very large landmasses, which are divided
by water, they nearly NEVER attacked each other.

Most attack-functionality relies on the enemies sharing a border. If
they don't have one, the only possible attack-mechanism is the
random-boat-sending. But for very large landmasses (=> very large number
of coastal tiles) it can take a long, long time before it randomly
selects an enemy-tile. With the bug I described above ("did not check if
the target is the player himself") it took even longer. And on the
world-map, the nations have to go over iceland, this is also very
unlikely.

So I implemented the method selectNearestIslandEnemy, which specifically
doesn't cares about borders. It makes sure that a nation always has
someone to attack. This method only gets used as a fallback, and only if
a nation has no borders with anybody.

Fixes #1916 (Please check this issue for screenshots and more info)

| my optimizations - 29m41s into the game - `China won and is in the
process of killing the last enemy` | openfront.io live - NEARLY A HOUR
into the game - `UK finally won. There are still 14 players on the
map...` |
| :---:   | :---: | 
| <img width="2560" height="1068" alt="localhost_9000_"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/a8107b88-19c8-4df7-a3fd-76d3d3e05d8e"
/> | <img width="2560" height="1068" alt="openfront io_ (1)"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/0d80e503-d5ed-41d4-a103-33dffc302001"
/> |

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- [x] I confirm I have thoroughly tested these changes and take full
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