What is the best country in bot games?

[DougJoe]

any country other than austria especially as the bot creators did;nt really understand the game of diplomacy and strangely programmed italy to attack austria 90% of the time which is unlike any format of real diplomacy

It's a lot, but (as I think I've said before) it's not as much as you think it is.

In any case, I just finished this one, which was game #83 as Austria:

https://webdiplomacy.net/board.php?gameID=1260768

...yes, Italy attacked... but Turkey went after Russia and they got into it, so I had some breathing room and made it work (I kind of especially like that I took no Turkish or Russian home centers). That makes 17/83 for Austria, which is just over 20%. I feel like 1 solo out of 5 with Austria is doing pretty well.

I'm up to 581 bot games, 83 as each power. I don't cancel games where the bot opening moves are unfavorable. In any case, as usual, full stats are available here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1gfIraEmmONofeeI0scnzycsxokDLlrEK-rat572-S-I/edit?usp=sharing

[Pengwinja]

I love DougJoe’s Google documents! Think you should include some terrain, though.

[Ernst_Brenner]

"I'm up to 581 bot games, 83 as each power"

I think we all know who the bot is.

[DougJoe]

"I'm up to 581 bot games, 83 as each power"

I think we all know who the bot is.

I play various games with co-workers at lunchtime, they also accuse me of being a robot.

It's taken a *long* time to play that many games, although I do hope to get up to 700 total (100 for each power).

[Pengwinja]

DougJoe is CICERO.

[DougJoe]

DougJoe is CICERO.

JOSHUA, maybe (Greetings Professor Falken) - I'm an 80's kid and I wish I was as good as how good I remember hearing CICERO was.

(Now I'm wondering if any of the young'ns will get that reference...)

[Pengwinja]

Interesting, it seems the only way to win the game is to not play.

Would you like to play a game of chess? (I think that’s the quote)

[DougJoe]

Interesting, it seems the only way to win the game is to not play.

Would you like to play a game of chess? (I think that’s the quote)

Close, it's "How about a nice game of chess?" (and I can hear the inflections in my head) +1 anyway for getting it.

One of my favorite movies.

[BaneTheImpenetrable]

any country other than austria especially as the bot creators did;nt really understand the game of diplomacy and strangely programmed italy to attack austria 90% of the time which is unlike any format of real diplomacy

It's a lot, but (as I think I've said before) it's not as much as you think it is.

In any case, I just finished this one, which was game #83 as Austria:

https://webdiplomacy.net/board.php?gameID=1260768

...yes, Italy attacked... but Turkey went after Russia and they got into it, so I had some breathing room and made it work (I kind of especially like that I took no Turkish or Russian home centers). That makes 17/83 for Austria, which is just over 20%. I feel like 1 solo out of 5 with Austria is doing pretty well.

I'm up to 581 bot games, 83 as each power. I don't cancel games where the bot opening moves are unfavorable. In any case, as usual, full stats are available here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1gfIraEmmONofeeI0scnzycsxokDLlrEK-rat572-S-I/edit?usp=sharing

The one french army just marching through Austria to Budapest be like:

[DougJoe]

https://webdiplomacy.net/board.php?gameID=1260768

...yes, Italy attacked... but Turkey went after Russia and they got into it, so I had some breathing room and made it work (I kind of especially like that I took no Turkish or Russian home centers). That makes 17/83 for Austria, which is just over 20%. I feel like 1 solo out of 5 with Austria is doing pretty well.

The one french army just marching through Austria to Budapest be like:

Yeah, that was pretty funny, wasn't it?

[Bladerunners]

The diplomacy community really failed in teaching the bot creators the purpose of the game / semantics of the game /

[DougJoe]

I love DougJoe’s Google documents! Think you should include some terrain, though.

My younger brother gave me a t-shirt for Christmas that he designed that has a cool Diplomacy logo on the front and a summary of my bot game results on the back. I'll post links to pictures sometime soon, it's pretty cool.

[DougJoe]

I love DougJoe’s Google documents! Think you should include some terrain, though.

My younger brother gave me a t-shirt for Christmas that he designed that has a cool Diplomacy logo on the front and a summary of my bot game results on the back. I'll post links to pictures sometime soon, it's pretty cool.

Pic links over in this post: https://webdiplomacy.net/contrib/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?p=441170#p441170

[Bladerunners]

If only the 2 young guys who developed bots had listened to web community about semantics / purpose / history of the game ... sigh ....