Sports figure or actor/actress?

I know Brainbomb likes to stir things up but to break the bots - sacrilege

It seems to me that Italy automatically in bad position by doing so as Turkey and/or Russia profit much faster than Italy can

The developers made turkey extra powerful as they for some unfathomable reason have Italy attack Austria in the vast majority of games (over 80%) which is unrealistic to how diplomacy normally played both in regular and gunboat

It appears there are some different threads on AI/bot diplomacy - do you mean an entire new forum title? I love playing the bot games but biggest weakness is developers programmed strategy of Italy attacking Austria in 80% of openings which is not normal activity in live or gunboat games.

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 perh...

Bot games really fun but developers forgot to program bots to realize 18 centers = a win (stop ‘any’ country from getting) and developers didnt know enough about faulty game play for italy to attack austria 80% of the time

Lepanto likely still best option for Italy / attacking France risky as even if goes well if R-T allied you are in trouble. All depends on alliances of course but attacking Austria usually seems to fail both in reg and gunboat as R/T just takes any gains.

He's right re. Italy being "rigged -- the developers mistakenly programmed Italy to attack Austria in greater than 75% of games rather than real life percentages....Italy Bots programmed not to learn from optimal play..

Thanks Zultar for all your hard work

As to the topic of “PC” - the forum is much nicer when people are asked to be PC and not attack others.

bot games stuck for me as well in build phase. Thx for updating moderators. Should be fixed soon

"Vastly" higher than 12% openings of an attack on Austria ... says 75%?? which is very different than a typical game. A couple of mods have said in the past that bots programmed to learn ... but they can't be as this is normally such a disastrous opening for Italy (not always - but normally)

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...)

Design flaw by developers of programming Italy to attack Austria a high percentage of the time makes Turkey very powerful in lots of bots games...

Nice job! Austria very hard to play as majority of starts has Italy very very strangely programmed to attack Austria in most games (which is not common diplomacy play / really bad opening normally for Italy)

#1 site improvement would be fixing major design flaw in the bots re italy attacking austria. Bots fun overall but this is a long over due fix needed (bots not learning as italy when austria attacked; fully a development ‘whoops’)

#1 development flaw with the bots is designers programming Italy to attack Austria in extremely unrealistic percentage of games. Zero way the bots have ‘learned this’ as no real Italy diplomacy player plays like that….

The bots don’t learn and perform though… often sit around doing nothing; often play incredibly weird movies to support country winning; and worst — Italy attacks Austria 75% of games which truly makes no sense. Too bad bots not learning to stop poor play but still fun

Really interesting analysis. It seems to me that to draw Russia is worst in gunboat... and then pretty even after that

Make sure a human player takes Italy ... the programmers didn't program Italy properly and the bots aren't learning from real games unfortunately.....