AI Improvements

[Foraker]

If the opponent hasn't any creatures out, AI doesn't play Flooding/Inundation.
Even with a full field of water creatures and SoP out.

[Pella]

I was playing RoL/Hope.  My creature field contained only Rays of Light (1 HP).  AI played Plague twice in the same turn.

[CuCN]

Dream Catcher had a Micro Abomination and put Butterfly Effect on it. Several turns later its Fate Egg hatched into a Dark Nymph, and it used the ability on the Micro Abomination, overriding the Butterfly Effect. The next turn it used another Butterfly Effect on the same Micro Abomination.

[Gandora]

I think an improvement that should be simple to implement is the discarding choice.

As up to now, the AI discards always the card on the bottom (from its perspective).
But in regards of Nightmare a different choice could be made.

1. If the AI doesn't have/produce quanta of the creature's type, discard one of those instead.
2. If the possibility exists to play the received creature... well, play them. If the quanta is not yet avaiable discard one of those as you probably have more than one copy of it (since most players rarely use Nightmare when the AI has only one free card spot).

[Tirear]

I think an improvement that should be simple to implement is the discarding choice.

As up to now, the AI discards always the card on the bottom (from its perspective).
But in regards of Nightmare a different choice could be made.

Actually, the AI already discards expensive cards and avoids nightmared cards. See here for details.

Considering expense in terms of its current quanta pools, like how fractal/nightmare are currently handled, does sound like a good way to improve that though.
Playing instead of discarding is more questionable, as there are very few reasons the AI won't play a creature when it has the quanta to do so (unlike spells, which it will save for a better opportunity). So if that situation occurs, it probably has a good reason not to play the card. If there is a problem in how it decides what not to play, it might be better to tackle that in the original decision rather then forcing it after the fact.

[traceurling]

I was playing with a lava golem deck and he froze the lava golem that had less attack...

[Pella]

me = mono-Death
AI = Fire/Darkness

AI played Nightfall.
I had several creatures on the field, and they all got buffed.  AI had 0 Darkness creatures on the field.  At the end of its turn, it had only 1 card in its hand, so it didn't play the Nightfall to unclog itself.  It makes no sense to play a card that helps your opponent and doesn't help you.

For the record, the AI did play some Darkness critters later.  Couldn't it have held the Nightfall until then, so it didn't hurt itself?


EDITED TO ADD: AI played Quint on a Ball Lightning.  Quinted Ball Lightning died at end of same turn.

EDITED TO ADD: While using a Ghostmare deck, AI played a GotP, then immediately played Nightmare on my Forest Spectre.  As if that weren't bad enough all by itself, I had more than enough quanta on hand to play one of the Forest Spectres on my next turn.

EDITED TO ADD: AI played Quint on an unbuffed Dune Scorpion.

EDITED TO ADD: AI played Liquid Shadow on its own unbuffed Devourer.  The vampire ability returned absolutely nothing to the AI's HP, and the Devourer died in two turns.  How can that possibly be considered worth doing?

And why am I the only one updating this thread now?

EDITED TO ADD: AI played Dragonfly and immediately detonated Unstable Gas.

EDITED TO ADD: AI had four Gravy Nymphs in play.  I had 3 Aether quanta.  AI activated Black Hole four times.  The first one made sense; the last three denied me nothing and healed the AI for nothing.  The only thing the AI accomplished with the last three was denying 9 to itself.

EDITED TO ADD: #1:  AI played Gravity Force on an Armagio that came into play on a previous turn.  #2:  AI immediately Catapulted the same Armagio at me.

No one other than me has updated this thread in almost a month.  Am I the only player to whom the AI is doing stupid shyte now, or does no one else care anymore?

[dragonsdemesne]

AI had an overdriven graviton guard, which I had delayed with iridium warden.  When the guard was 16/1, overdriven, and delayed, it spammed twin universe on it, and they all died without ever getting to attack.

[Pella]

Hooray!  Someone besides me posted in here.  That took only 40 days.  :/

[Rutarete]

Hooray!  Someone besides me posted in here.  That took only 40 days.  :/

... It's not like it's a daily thread or anything... no one has to post here

[Pella]

I know.  I've never seen such a long dry spell, though.

[dawn to dusk]

didnt know this was here lol. anyway, ai stole my vamp stilleto even though it had a vamp dagger in play