QuoteBots often make decisions that seem boneheaded but change the shape of the game considerably (e.g. overbuying militia), and learning how to react to that kind of thing is good practice.
Yeah, typical bot-learned strategies that I see a lot of are pile-driving militia, feast or other low cost actions when going for a simple BM+X strategy will be faster (even if being militia'd)... bots don't teach you some key base strategies like workshop + gardens, or even the power of chapel.
(Just won a base game yesterday 37-0 opening chapel/remodel, I felt bad but I can't play better players due to the combination of them all having autokick and my rating being f'd over by Goko, has taken over a week to recover half my rating)QuoteBots often make decisions that seem boneheaded but change the shape of the game considerably (e.g. overbuying militia), and learning how to react to that kind of thing is good practice.The problem with learning to react to dumb strategies is that it often doesn't teach you how to react to good ones.
I'd agree that it helps a little bit with 3-4 player games, because when several people start doing an inferior strategy it can make better strategies not work, but there are key concepts that you have to play out with people. (In fact, doing so helps you considerably, after about 3-4 games, the people I introduce to dominion can beat most of the bots.)
Just a quick rules check (I haven't read the log to see if it came up) - if I overpay for Dr. With Trader in hand, I can get the overbuy benefit (when buy) and then Trade the Dr. for a Silver (when would gain), right?
Buying is resolved before gaining (and thats where trader triggers), so I would say yes.
Of course as a practical matter the presence of Knights would make gathering many different cards out of the Black Market hard, as those cards could be trashed with no ability to replace, plus the Knights will trash each other.Clearly, you should buy all of the Knights yourself!
I just got Stef'd
(Of course he won: http://dom.retrobox.eu/?/20130828/log.50b20dc3e4b0c9ce0cf27eb3.1377722227297.txt)
Man, your Jack deck ran awfully slow... seems like you should have been able to easily outpace that. Although the Upgrades are kind of
That said, that's kind of awesome.
The duchy purchasing strategy for the bots is based on 3 or 4 player games. Buying duchies when one pile is empty seems much more reasonable in that setting. The bots also follow very similar purchasing rules so together they can empty piles making early duchies more valuable.
First buy all ten Villages to get a high Village density. Then buy a few Adventurers to draw the Coppers into your hand, and top it off with a Coppersmith to get past $7 and score a Province.
QuoteWhat's the definition of 2?
I thought it was defined as 1+1.
Indeed it is. Most of the counter examples badly define either counting or the arithmetic operator. For example, 1 river + 1 river = 1 bigger river.
169. Counting HouseTry it with Counterfeit. Just play it last so you don't have to trash your coppers.
...and lack of +buy to take advantage of the huge effect it can give you.
Cellar (strong trasher)
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