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Support / Re: Bot AI improvements?

« on: 03 February 2023, 11:59:42 PM »

Yeah, super hard I'm sure, but development time on some of these basic ideas would be pretty minimal.  I guess there's always tradeoffs, and they eat into profits.  Maybe I'll check out the steam version, did not know about it, thanks.

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Support / Bot AI improvements?

« on: 03 February 2023, 02:41:24 AM »

Why have there seemingly been none for a very long time?
I get it that Bot AI is super complicated, but there are so many simple improvements that could be made.
I’m sure there are a ton of great ideas that are simple, maybe they’ve already been posted.
I often just cancel a bot game when I see a certain card, because it will be a wasted game, eg. Counterfeit or Tournament.

1. Add a Big Money bot
2. Bots should either never buy Counterfeit, because they always buy as many as they can then they trash all their treasure, or set some basic rules.
3. Bots always buy multiple Tournaments but then never take the Prize.
4. Do bots ever buy Events, Projects, use Ways, or do any calculations with Landmarks?
   maybe pick a couple powerful ones and implement some very basic algorithms
5. Bots seem to buy a Potion whenever they are available even if they don’t buy the associated Alchemy card.
6. Bots often buy a Remake or 2 then trash their whole deck.  Also limit the # of Junk Dealers.
7. Jack of All Trades is strong, but is buying 4 of them optimal?
8. They buy one or two Flag Bearers then give up, do they ever trash Flag Bearers?
9. Limit the number of Vault, Bandit Camp, probably others that it never stops buying
10 Does bot ever purchase the discounted Wayfarer or Peddler
11 Maybe just a couple simple times when the Bot will buy 1 Kings Court or Throne Room?

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General Discussion / Kingdom Options saveable?

« on: 27 November 2022, 08:57:35 PM »

Is there an option to save a preferred "Kingdom Setup"?  Or more that one.  I like to have one of each Event, Way, Project, Landmark, and it would be nice if that could be saved.

And why can't the Banned/Dislike card lists be bigger?  There are more than 5 cards that completely destroy a 4 player game and make it unplayable lasting hours with so many responses needed.
A great feature would be multiple Banned lists that could be used based on number of players in a game, as well as a rated or unrated game.

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AI bugs / Inheritance + Clerk doesn't work

« on: 30 July 2022, 04:39:56 AM »

Searched and couldn't find this as already reported.  No option to play the "Estate/Clerk" from hand at the start of the turn. Seems to me the Start of the turn is a part of the turn, so it should be playable.

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Support / Bug, frozen against bot on Secret Passage

« on: 02 July 2022, 08:51:33 PM »

Bot played secret passage and got stuck.

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AI bugs / Can't Login, clicking on Login button does nothing

« on: 23 February 2022, 06:25:17 AM »

Clicking on the Login button isn't doing anything, as if it's not even a button.
In both Safari and Chrome.

Worked fine yesterday in both.

Chrome
Version 98.0.4758.102

Safari
Version 15.3 (17612.4.9.1.

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General Discussion / Re: Sorry about this but the UI changes are not good...

« on: 22 February 2022, 02:07:30 AM »

Post game stats/scoring/cards owned is basically unreadable compared to being perfectly fine before.

Please go back to the old UI.

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General Discussion / Re: Sorry about this but the UI changes are not good...

« on: 22 February 2022, 01:55:51 AM »

So good before, so much worse now.

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AI bugs / Re: Looks like a lot of the AI issues are never going to be resolved

« on: 29 December 2020, 09:02:05 PM »

Writing an AI for a good bot is very very hard, but there are some easy fixes.  Like don't have a bot buy potion every time it's on the board and then never use it...

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Feature Requests / Re: Change Cards before start

« on: 25 July 2020, 02:27:50 AM »

That is an awesome idea.  Would be a great option for one or more cards.  An excellent way to use random to set up, but still "fix" a set up that has too many 6 cost, or too many attacks, or you don't have a lot of time and want to skip witch or ghost ship this game, etc., etc. etc.
So many possible uses.

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Feature Requests / Re: Request: Let me see the moves before reporting on them

« on: 25 July 2020, 02:22:22 AM »

seconded

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General Discussion / Re: Safari!?

« on: 25 July 2020, 02:19:59 AM »

Any chance for an update that supports Safari?
The last changes broke the chat function in Safari, at least on Mojave, the text doesn't scroll, and after the game the chat box gets hidden.

Or does it maybe work and I need to update Safari? (I've been avoiding Catalina)

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Feature Requests / Re: 4 requests

« on: 30 April 2020, 10:22:08 PM »

For #3, yes definitely not as a new rule, just as an option.

Sad that the designer is so closed minded to ideas that so many people want.  (and so simple to implement as options, not defaults)

I've heard 3/4 called a "tournament start", as in, many tournaments use that as a rule.
Something that widespread should be considered.

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Feature Requests / Re: More disliked/ banned cards

« on: 29 April 2020, 07:16:03 AM »

Totally agree.   Sometimes you just need a break from a card for a while.

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Feature Requests / 4 requests

« on: 29 April 2020, 07:14:35 AM »

I know a couple of these are not part of the original rules, but they are easily implemented with the physical game and are used frequently.  Would be great to have them as options online.

1. An option to select from a list of the "Recommended Sets" from the rule books, and have it populate the selected kingdom cards.
2. Ability to select starting card set ups of 5&2, 3&4, or random.
3. An option that would allow player(s) to take another turn after the game would normally have ended, if they have had less turns.
4. A "selected kingdom cards" replay option, button that allows you to play the same setup again (when it was generated randomly).