Curious about Dominions? how the AI thinks? which AI is best/worst?

[Gandalf Parker]

Another Early_AI test complete. The time-stamp on those scores rolled. The first one is actually 1440. (Ive fixed that for future runs)

Hinnom the winner with Oceania holding out till second place again. Yomi was first out followed closely by Kailasa. Wow since Yomi was the winner on the last one. I should check if it was the same AI (defense, standard, agressive) both times

It occurred to me that it would be helpful if someone wanted to provide data for mp to go with this. Rather than impressions and opinions maybe someone administratively skilled could break down the winners list from the sticky in the mp forum? Just totals for each nation. It wouldnt provide the 1st out info but it would provide winner stats

[JimMorrison]

Originally Posted by Gandalf Parker

It occurred to me that it would be helpful if someone wanted to provide data for mp to go with this. Rather than impressions and opinions maybe someone administratively skilled could break down the winners list from the sticky in the mp forum? Just totals for each nation. It wouldnt provide the 1st out info but it would provide winner stats

Actually, many of those victory posts contain links to the original game threads - so many of those, will contain posts stating that one nation or another was defeated, and thanking someone for playing. So theoretically, with a few long hours of effort, some data could be pulled. The problem being how do you quantify it, if out of say 10 nations, 1 wins, 5 are defeated outright, and 4 others are alive at the end of the game?

[Gandalf Parker]

Originally Posted by JimMorrison

Actually, many of those victory posts contain links to the original game threads - so many of those, will contain posts stating that one nation or another was defeated, and thanking someone for playing. So theoretically, with a few long hours of effort, some data could be pulled. The problem being how do you quantify it, if out of say 10 nations, 1 wins, 5 are defeated outright, and 4 others are alive at the end of the game?

Quite right. Its definitely not going to be as clinical a result as the AI tests are.

Ive gathered some data from the games that happen on my server. In fact its one of the reasons I started doing it.

But it doesnt have to be great data. Im HOPING that it tells us nothing at all. That would be best. But if the same nations seem to fall out of the game in the first wave, and the same ones appear to top the winner list, all with different people playing them... then that would be data worth noting.

People have often said "everyone knows" facts about weak and strong nations. When Ive glanced thru things I was never able to spot a correlation.