Just in case of the rare possibility that bots are learning (I disagree they are but in case) ... always good to cancel game immediately when Italy attacks Austria ,,... this happens in 80% of games which is very much against how the game normally goes (developers did nice job with the game but perhaps didn't know enough about how usually a horrible idea for Italy to attack austria outright most of the time)

Bladerunners wrote: ↑

Fri Feb 24, 2023 1:11 am

My advice is to always immediately cancel a game as Austria when Italy attacks = so the Bots don't learn that this is a feasible attack (although I still strongly believe a design flaw...)

I didn't think the classic bots were learning from "new" games that they play, only from the games they were previously trained on (which was a long time ago) ... someone in the know please correct me if I'm wrong.

My advice is to always immediately cancel a game as Austria when Italy attacks = so the Bots don't learn that this is a feasible attack (although I still strongly believe a design flaw...)

I think we put an explanation for this when you click on the question mark next to the voting options for bot games. It's been a minute since I've played one so I cant quite remember.

Just like in any game you play, every power must be voting cancel or draw for it to occur. In the case of the bots, all bots will vote cancel if you do, in the first 2 years (it might be 1 year) I think. After that initial time, bots will never vote cancel. Bots will vote draw at any time during the game if they are not in the lead, or if they do not have more supply centers than they did two years previous.

Basically if you want to draw a bot game, put in your draw vote and then force a stalemate or take the lead. The bots are programmed this way to prevent users from just canceling games that they are losing. Canceling games in that way wont help you learn as well, and gives us bad data to work with.

I was wondering the same thing. How did you do it?

Got it. Never mind🤫

Folks
Hi. I find that draw and cancel can’t stop a bot game. Is there a way to stop it? I can just bang through, but that’s gets boring.
Thanks