PS the Dominion Online logs don't show how many piles are empty at the end, so the checking for the endgame is done in this order:
- did a player resign?
- was the string "gains Colony" detected enough times to empty the Colony pile?
- was the string "gains Province" detected enough times to empty the Province pile?
- it must have ended due to piles
I would conjecture that strong players and strong boards both push games towards 3-piles.
Also games with 1 strong and 1 weak player would 3-pile quite often.
I'm talking about ending on three piles, province depletion or colony depletion. Anyone got any numbers on it, or are able to check? I've looked at council room but can't see a way to check it on there.
To be fair, the engine bot is still doing the first one. It is just not having the most points the most time before the game ends.It doesn't matter how much VP you have at the end. Winning is winning.
Who was it that said the object of Dominion is not to have the most points at the end of the game, but to end the game while you have the most points?
Interestingly, although @SheCantSayNo's bot beats either of my original bots 60-40, its average VP is lower at every turn. The games in which SheCantSayNo's bot is ahead must tend to end early.
You should look at the average VP score of each bot on turn 10, 11, etc. just in games that end on that turn.
If you compare a money bot to an engine bot that can end the game while it is ahead, the money bot is ahead throughout the game each time it wins. The engine bot is probably ahead only for the final turn for most of the games it wins. But the engine bot ends the game on the turn it gets ahead, which is worth way more than being ahead on turns 3-15 only to lose later on!
Here's a very basic and rough engine script that utilizes Lookout and beats both scripts in the OP:Code: [Select]# "Simulators can't play engines!"
{
name: 'KC-Engine'
author: 'SheCantSayNo'
requires: ['Lookout', 'Caravan', 'Bazaar', 'Festival', 'Embassy', "King's Court"]
gainPriority: (state, my) -> [
"Festival" if my.countInDeck("King's Court") > 1 and my.countInDeck("Festival") == 0
"King's Court" if my.countInDeck("King's Court") < 5
"Colony"
"Province" if state.gainsToEndGame() <= 3
"Bazaar" if my.countInDeck("Bazaar") < 3 #5-2 opening
"Embassy" if my.countInDeck("Embassy") == 0
"Caravan" if my.countInDeck("Caravan") < 1 #4-3 opening
"Lookout" if my.countInDeck("Lookout") < 1 #4-3 opening
"Festival" if my.countInDeck("Festival") < 2
"Festival" if my.ai.drewDeck(state, my) == 1
"Duchy" if state.gainsToEndGame() <= 2
"Bazaar"
"Caravan" if state.gainsToEndGame() > 2
"Silver" if state.gainsToEndGame() > 2
"Estate" if state.gainsToEndGame() <= 2
]
drewDeck: (state, my) ->
draw = my.cardsInDeck
for card in my.hand
draw--
for card in my.inPlay
draw--
if draw == 0
return 1
else
return 0
multipliedPriority: (state, my) -> [
"King's Court"
"Caravan" if my.ai.drewDeck(state, my) == 0
"Bazaar" if my.ai.drewDeck(state, my) == 0
"Festival"
"Embassy" if my.ai.drewDeck(state, my) == 0
"Bazaar"
"Caravan"
"Lookout" if state.gainsToEndGame() >= 6
]
playPriority: (state, my) -> [
"King's Court"
"Lookout" if state.gainsToEndGame() >= 4
"Caravan"
"Bazaar"
"Embassy"
"Silver"
"Copper"
]
}
Try skipping Lookout to see how much poorer it does.
What else could you even need to make this a King's Court board?
You can't really simulate King's Court strategies.
Thanks, DStu. Is there a way I can patch it for myself if I'm running from a browser? Just dumping the fixed makeCard code into the "Player 1" window in my browser doesn't work.
{
name: 'LookBug'
requires: ['Lookout']
gainPriority: (state, my) -> [
"Colony" if my.countInDeck("Platinum") > 0
"Province" if state.countInSupply("Colony") <= 6 \
or state.countInSupply("Province") <= 6
"Duchy" if 0 < state.gainsToEndGame() <= 5
"Estate" if 0 < state.gainsToEndGame() <= 2
"Platinum"
"Gold" if my.countInDeck("Gold") < 2
"Lookout"
"Silver"
]
actionPriority: (state, my) ->
if state.gainsToEndGame() > 5 or ...
"Lookout"
}
actionPriority: (state, my) ->
old_actionPriority(state,my)
does also work, at least Lookout is implemented correctly there, but there might be some newer cards (like from Guilds and Dark Ages) that are not listed there anymore.my.ai.old_actionPriority(state,my)
I'm not sure what exactly the scope is from which the code is called here.-- if state.gainsToEndGame >= 5 or state.cardInfo.Curse in my.draw
++ if state.gainsToEndGame() >= 5 or state.cardInfo.Curse in my.draw
What about recent/realtime sales (rather than cumulative)? Do people still buy more Intrigue than Seaside, or is it weighed more heavily toward the better reviewed sets? I would expect the current best selling ones would always be the base set and whatever the newest expansion is at the time (?).let's stop talking about it.
I haven't been following this thread too closely, but has Linux support been confirmed yet? I would have no way of playing otherwise.
At the very least you should be able to able to play in a browser, because we'll target Unity 5's WebGL build, which just needs any browser supporting WebGL and asm.js.
Incidentally, ignore anything you read about the Unity webplayer and Linux, because that's old tech. It's based on the Netscape plugin API which is being phased out in browsers these days due to the security holes it creates.
Sweet! The post I read about you guys using webplayer was months ago, if you've decided to step up to WebGL that's great news for us Linux users!
Due to your guys' interest in this, we tried creating a native build for Linux for the first time today. It works.
theblankman, if you would like to beta-test (really alpha-test) the Linux build, please message me with your email.
How did you know I found the league? You are really paying attention
2. Change the booting feature.... unless you are deliberately trying to lose customers? OK, lets say I am new and come to multiplayer for the first time, here's what happens. I go into a room, join a game, and BAM, "so-and-so has kicked you out." Try another table and, BAM same thing. Why is everybody kicking me out? Why does nobody like me? What have I done wrong? Why are there all these different rooms? What do they mean? Why can't I enter some of the rooms? Am I being banned? Do people not want me in this room? I guarantee you that you are losing thousands of potential players and customers right in this moment. The message should say "We are sorry your rating does not qualify to sit at this table, please visit our beginners table" AND there needs to be a special space for beginners.That should be solved by a good auto-match system, where you just click "search for game", and than get paired with a player of approximately your skill, which they also can't reject anymore (except by resigning the game and therefore losing it)
I avoid the alchemy set because i have heard it doesn't mix well in full random.it does
Thx Lord Humanton for the detailed answer on what exactly you are doing. Going to greenlight now.
Regarding log/deck tracker
If you keep the searchable full game log, just add a deck tracker that displays how many of each card are in everyones deck. Either that information should not be available at all, or it should be available without the hassle of going through the entire log.
Empty deck, YES but NO...
Because If your deck is empty, no treasure.
No treasure, no way to buy another card.
No way to buy, no victory card.
No victory card, no way to win...
