Will we get AI on any variant maps anytime soon?

[LeonTrotsky]

I love playing bot games, and would love to see this feature extended to alternative map variants, like Known World 901, Ancient Med, etc.

[gimix]

Unfortunately that won't happen soon, and probably it will never happen. Bots were developed by AI researchers who wanted to test how an AI would behave in something so complex as a Dip game, and we've been happy to host the bots and to help training them. But we never had a request for a variant-aware project.

This shows how powerful and at the same time how limited AI's are: even the bots for Classic and for FvA are totally different projects, and one would not be able to replace the other.

[Bladerunners]

The disability committee did a dis-service to the game of diplomacy by not educating the creators of the bots and AI to the nature and purpose of the game... IMO ... although more blame is on the 2 creators for not really educating themselves to the game (ie.goal of 18 to win etc)

[wulfheart]

I would love to give it a try and dive deeper but I don’t have the GPU resources needed for this.