This is a set I played the other day and was first player with a 5/2 opening. I thought that this was a big handicap and tried a gambling strategy that proved to be quite inappropriate. I looked back at it with the simulator and it seemed quite interesting with a lot of possible tweaks so I'm throwing it open.
Steward, Navigator, Cutpurse, Remodel, Tournament. Rabble, Outpost, Harem, Noble, Expand, Platinum, Colony.
To help people with a few simulator features
- You'll need to add a clause for each unique prizes within the purchasing rules if you want them claimed
- The platinum and colonies piles are empty if they are not included in the purchasing rules (even if they are in conditional statements)
To stop people wasting too much time
- I found that the games had very high variance so you can't rely on one 10,000 simulation to guarantee results of less than 2%
- The core strategy determines most games
- There is a point at which endgame improvements are hard to see beyond the variance.
- In other words, try to find a good core strategy rather than beat other people's good bots by miniscule percentages