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Re: Welcome to Feedback and Bug Reports!

by dargorygel » Thu Jun 03, 2021 4:52 pm

Claesar wrote:
Sun May 30, 2021 12:00 pm
However, the bots don't know which player is human and which is bot.
Well..... They SAY they don't, when we ask them...

Re: Welcome to Feedback and Bug Reports!

by Claesar » Sun May 30, 2021 12:00 pm

However, the bots don't know which player is human and which is bot.

Re: Welcome to Feedback and Bug Reports!

by Gandalfthegrey » Sun May 30, 2021 11:40 am

I don't know what information the bots are supposed to take into consideration, but from my experience the best opening for an Italian bot in a bot game where the human player is Austria is definitely attacking Austria. If Austria survives long enough for Turkey and Russia to be defeated (which they will if Italy helps them against Turkey), it's pretty easy to attack Germany and stab Italy for the solo, as the bots don't create proper stalemate lines. Even if this isn't successful (for example, if there's a particularly strong western alliance), Italy is likely to end up being divided between Austria and France (in the case of an EF or FG) or Austria and England (in the case of an EG). The best way to ensure this doesn't happen from Italy's perspective is to attack Austria with Russia and Turkey, which is basically a death sentence for Austria. (Unless Russia or Turkey sides with Austria, but in that case it's doubly important for Italy to attack Austria). In a normal game, this would result in the Juggernaut taking out Italy, but because bot games draw once the player is eliminated, Italy doesn't have to deal with that punishment. Instead, they end up in a 5 or 6 way draw, which is about as good an outcome as the Italian bot can hope to accomplish.

From what I can see, the only scenario in which the Italian bot shouldn't attack human Austria is if England and Germany are both attacking France at the same time that Russia and Turkey are both attacking Austria, in which case Italy can make gains against France while leaving the human Austria to fend off Russia and Turkey, which prevents Austria from becoming powerful enough to stab Italy. This is the best case scenario for Italy, as it can result in a smaller draw size, but it's not something that the bot can rely on.

Re: Welcome to Feedback and Bug Reports!

by Bladerunners » Sun May 30, 2021 5:25 am

Fyi. Eng also about as impossible to play as aus. Both ger and fra attack eng in about 90% of games. Minimum. Starting to cancel games as England too with bad starts as otherwise games no fun.

Re: Welcome to Feedback and Bug Reports!

by Bladerunners » Sun May 30, 2021 5:14 am

I dont think meta indicates aus doing so well that italy gains from attacking 13 games in a row ;-). Another suggestion - dont let the bots know which is the human player ... as some bots stop playing while others engage the human player. Ex. I’m playing a game as Eng where for several years tky and aus have done nothing but hold. Not seen in real games so not sure how the bots are ‘learning’ that??

Re: Welcome to Feedback and Bug Reports!

by Ogion » Thu May 27, 2021 4:10 pm

If I may do a little penance, first, allow me to invite you NOT to cancel those games, because the bot is learning from those games, and it may be that the bot hasn't learned not to attack Italy straight off because everyone is canceling those. Do your part and give the bot some data!

Second, if the bot is opening that way, perhaps it is because it works better than our meta would suggest. Worth taking a look at.

Re: Welcome to Feedback and Bug Reports!

by Puddle » Thu May 27, 2021 3:34 pm

I play a lot of Bit games and I'd say I see Italy open against Austria too often, but far short of everytime. In a very small number of instances where Turkey/Russia opens against the other and then don't change course this could work for Italy. In the 1 human/6 bot games an Italian open against Austria is almost never optimal though. I think the issue here is the difference between the circumstances of the sample data vs the circumstances of 1 human/6 bot games, which have different optimal outcome I'd imagine.

Re: Welcome to Feedback and Bug Reports!

by Bladerunners » Wed May 26, 2021 2:48 am

my approach now is to cancel every game that italy opens against austria as very unrealistic ... if italy thinks this is optimistic, there is a programming fix needed is all i am saying

Re: Welcome to Feedback and Bug Reports!

by Bladerunners » Wed May 26, 2021 12:46 am

Respectfully, I'm having a hard time believing that. I've played diplomacy for many years on this site and other formats... there is no way the bots are learning from this site's Italy game play IMO. I just tried 13 games in a row as Austria.. and Italy attacked Austria 13 times straight. There is no way that happens on this site :-)

Re: Welcome to Feedback and Bug Reports!

by gimix » Tue May 25, 2021 1:30 pm

Bots are not programmed to attack Austria as Italy, nor to follow any other specific strategy.
They are neural networks which were trained feeding them many hundreds of real games, and their behaviour is what they extracted as "optimal" from that training.

Re: Welcome to Feedback and Bug Reports!

by Bladerunners » Tue May 25, 2021 4:01 am

Suggest developers not program Italy to attack Austria in every opening in bot games. It’s not realistic for this to happen in such a huge degree ...

Re: Welcome to Feedback and Bug Reports!

by kgray » Fri Dec 04, 2020 11:08 pm

Vaporwave wrote:
Fri Dec 04, 2020 7:56 pm
can't delete anything from inbox, it says invalid form, does it happen to everyone?
You should be able to delete a message from inside the actual PM, but yes, the mark/delete feature in the inbox is not currently working.

Re: Welcome to Feedback and Bug Reports!

by Vaporwave » Fri Dec 04, 2020 7:56 pm

can't delete anything from inbox, it says invalid form, does it happen to everyone?

Re: Welcome to Feedback and Bug Reports!

by jmo1121109 » Sun Apr 26, 2020 6:41 am

If you think there was cheating in your game please email us at [email protected], and if you have feedback on the interface please include that too.

Thanks,
WebDip Dev

Re: Welcome to Feedback and Bug Reports!

by GouRmetAnaL » Sun Apr 26, 2020 4:44 am

Only took me one game to figure out why this game sucks on computer. Cheaters and terrible interface. Plus just forgot how simplistic this game is.
Oh well Republic of Rome was always a lot more fun

Re: Welcome to Feedback and Bug Reports!

by jmo1121109 » Wed Apr 08, 2020 1:24 am

Have everyone leave the game if it hasn't started yet. If it has, have everyone vote to cancel.

Re: Welcome to Feedback and Bug Reports!

by Lezz » Tue Apr 07, 2020 9:40 pm

Is there any way to rename a game? If not, is there any way to delete a game? I'm the creator of the game.

Re: Welcome to Feedback and Bug Reports!

by taylor4 » Sat Mar 21, 2020 6:02 pm

Anomaly in Bot gameID=274481 ("slaphap") FRA/AUS:
Autumn 1907
France (bot):
A SIL - WAR (fail)
A PRU support hold SIL (fail) !
Should only happen in a human to human game ?

Re: Welcome to Feedback and Bug Reports!

by Senlac » Sat Jun 15, 2019 8:51 pm

MajorMitchell wrote:
Fri Jun 14, 2019 6:24 pm
I'm unimpressed with the RR punishment for missing orders to get out of a game, given that there is no option to leave a game other than missing two sets of orders/emailing Mods.
If you wanted to find a way to totally discourage me from playing here for a year, then I think you've succeeded marvellously.
53%! Wow, the boys in the Regimental mess will be unimpressed with that Major 🤣

Re: Welcome to Feedback and Bug Reports!

by MajorMitchell » Fri Jun 14, 2019 6:24 pm

I'm unimpressed with the RR punishment for missing orders to get out of a game, given that there is no option to leave a game other than missing two sets of orders/emailing Mods.
If you wanted to find a way to totally discourage me from playing here for a year, then I think you've succeeded marvellously.

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