Interesting! How much better was the evolved Reaper compared to the original?Bertrand wrote:I actually did that in Reaper, and originally I wanted him to learn from his online playing, but could not do it because there is no way to store stuff on the sillysoft server. What I did instead is make him learn locally on my machine by letting him play many thousands of games. I then took the "genes" and hard-coded them in the version I released to everyone.
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I estimate this technique improved his win rate by 5-8% on the classic map. But the learning is very slow, and this has to be done for each card progression, and continent bonus increase % value. In the end I lost patience and compromised by always using a 10% continent increase.GregM wrote:Interesting! How much better was the evolved Reaper compared to the original?
Yeah that is why I hesitate to make reaper vengeful. It might be fun a few times, but probably not long term. A bot that always does that will not earn respect from the human players, and will probably be bot-firsted all the time.Augustus Maximus wrote:what kinda dumbass would actually use a vengebot though? Who would play with bots that purposely suicide a player?
Perhaps the best solution is to make this behavior optional.
What if the bot was vengeful, but didn't hold a grudge? Vengeance could be limited to the next 3 or so games, or until the bot had "gotten back" at the player (if sooner). After that, it could "cool off" and revert to normal play behavior. Accompaied by a message in the chat window, of course.Bertrand wrote:Yeah that is why I hesitate to make reaper vengeful. It might be fun a few times, but probably not long term. A bot that always does that will not earn respect from the human players, and will probably be bot-firsted all the time.Augustus Maximus wrote:what kinda dumbass would actually use a vengebot though? Who would play with bots that purposely suicide a player?
Perhaps the best solution is to make this behavior optional.
Some humans seem to have some luck employing this strategy.
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