As much as the autopilot feature makes me want to become a member myself, I can't help but feel that it gives members an unfair competitive edge over newer/weaker players- especially since the AI is going to receive further improvements in the future.

Someone who has no experience playing Warlight can buy a membership then crush new players with the more advanced AI on autopilot.

That's an interesting point, Epicular.

Ulti:

The AIs do use Diplomacy on each other, as well. You were probably the strongest player in that game, though, am I right?

This has a lot to do with my earlier question:

Are the AIs hampered by fog, or can they "see" the whole map? (Which would allow them to know other players' production levels and so forth.)

I have problems with AIs that players who were AIs cannot automatically take turns so Fizzer can you fixed the issue of AIs otherwise we had problems with AIs unable to automatically take turns

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AIs are broken a bit, they took ages to calculate their turn, and when I surrendered I got booted later and it affected by statistics.

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Every single update makes me like WL less. Autopilot sucks so much. Soon this game will be something like Fritz vs Rybka. If I wanted to play against AI I would play single player.

^+1

All of my templates and some of my single-player progress appears to be gone.

EDIT: Never mind, found the templates.

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i really like the auto pilot idea.

"Are the AIs hampered by fog, or can they "see" the whole map? (Which would allow them to know other players' production levels and so forth.)"

Nope, they see the same as you do. I also had a "Getting partial history" msg, when using Autopilot. (Else you could hack the game and see the light fogged board, since the Autopilot appears to run in the browser. Not 100% sure through.) Not sure what is the case if you get booted, and the AI runs on the server.


ALSO, the AI has yet to master most templates, and will not be able to understand the diversity that comes from the settings anytime soon.

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@ps. Yup! It is great. Now noobs like you will be able to compete with everyone! Soon AIs will earn coins on Small Earth (easy template) for you! In a few years AIs will takeover Ladders!
A beggining of a new great era on WL!

^Also, I am going to test how well AI+Human can do on the ladder. Stay tuned.

AIs are not only hampered by fog but have the additional disadvantage that they don't have access to the history. They only see the current board, the picking stage board and the previous turn board. Apart from that they just forget.

I wouldn't let any current AI play for me on small earth coin games but if players could let them pick this could be a problem since even the "slow" Wunderwaffe's speed is in the dimension of a couple hundred miliseconds.

As for pickspeed I think you need to click "Begin" before you can open the Autopliot menu. You could pick faster (not saying as fast, and good through.) That being said, I would not support use of AI in coin games. In fact I am pretty sure it violates the ToS.

Auto-Pilot is an advantage for Members, and the Small-Earth Coin template should be replaced by something more strategic, maybe Duel.

ToS

C. Robots not allowed for game playing.
Users agree not to use or launch any automated system except via warlight APIs defined at http://warlight.net/api that accesses WarLight's website, including but not limited to systems that attempt to automatically play the game, create games, communicate with other Users, or mine data.

So... Autopilot violates this? Yes or no?

Yes.

Btw, the new AI completely breaks all single player scenarios that have more than 10 AIs and maps with more than 1000 territories, so I would very much like to be able to use the old AI in some single player scenarios.

I am talking about furure perspective. It is a step in a bad direction.
And it wouldn't be difficoult to implement AI using the start button on browser.

I agree, step in the wrong direction.

A little graphical error:

After AI played too many cards the text of the active cards is going over the background square.

http://abload.de/img/warlight-zu_viele_karf2jbl.png

Sultan: lol, never took you for a technophobe.