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The problem is that there are so many settings and variants of the game that with each game the AI rating can be completely different. For example, it is enough to add an AI with planes for such OTVI and turn on maintenance costs. AI with planes will go bankrupt every now and then, and OTVI right behind it because it has such a silly habit to buy out every failing company. I was also surprised by the distant position of ShipAI on your list, which in my opinion is one of the most competitive opponents.
Oh, I'm not arguing for having only one map. But having like a dozen maps which cover the above points (and more). But using those identically for all AI and also for challanges to compare AI evolution. The latter, sadly, has been pretty stagnant over the recent years.mousetail wrote: 12 Dec 2019 13:40 I'm not sure if standardizing the maps is a good idea. It might lead to over-fitting where one AI happens to be good on a certain map but is not very strong overall. Generating random maps every time makes sure that there is no overspecialization.
In my opinion, developing such template scenarios would be a better solution. This would give you the possibility to more objectively compare AI and see differences in performance. Random maps, each time different, especially different for each AI, do not give such a possibility.mousetail wrote: 12 Dec 2019 13:40 I'm not sure if standardizing the maps is a good idea. It might lead to over-fitting where one AI happens to be good on a certain map but is not very strong overall. Generating random maps every time makes sure that there is no overspecialization.
However, I think it would be better to limit that number to a dozen of suitably diverse scenarios, maybe even from downloading window in game(?), because even if it were several hundred variants, anyway they would not take into account all possibilities. And, of course, any data of income or size of the company will say what the game looks like with a given AI and whether it is interesting, so apart from "dry" tests descriptions containing the most important information would be useful, something like what I mentioned above.For now, I have not published these descriptions anywhere. In total, I described about 20 AI. Not all descriptions are full and above all they are writte in Polish, so they won't help you much. Google Translator seems to explain it, but it's still quite lame for todaymousetail wrote: 11 Dec 2019 20:19 Are they all published somewhere? Perhaps, with your permission, they could also be posted in the AI descriptions on the website.
If you wanted to publish it 1: 1, or even 1:10, I would have to verify everything again, because even now I see some inaccuracies in my description - it is not known whether AdmiralAI uses ships or doesn't use them. Checking each AI is always a few hours of fun. At present, I would not have much time to deal with it. However, I do not exclude, but neither do I promise, maybe I will come back to it next year. Then I would send you these descriptions. I don't mind if you use these descriptions or even a template for information.
I'm sorry but it seems right now a bit too complex to manage setting different settings dependent on the AI type Not making any promises to run it as I have no random servers lying around at home, but I'm interested in playing around with it for a while.I don't mean the available settings of each AI, but this:mousetail wrote: 28 Dec 2019 18:29 @Samu
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