RhysMarkov wrote: I thought it would be funny to see what other crazy behavior people have seen that just makes you stop playing for a moment out of shock. For me it was just now, when a Koth deck hit me with an Emrakul two turns in a row, and then giving it double-strike on the second turn. O_o Y'know, being in the top 50 is enough for me right now. Thanks, Koth. Lol
Steeme wrote: RhysMarkov wrote: I thought it would be funny to see what other crazy behavior people have seen that just makes you stop playing for a moment out of shock. For me it was just now, when a Koth deck hit me with an Emrakul two turns in a row, and then giving it double-strike on the second turn. O_o Y'know, being in the top 50 is enough for me right now. Thanks, Koth. Lol It's funny, when I play Koth, he's "not bad". When the AI is in control, it just exponentiates the lopsided mana/loyalty gains that it is capable of. Impossible to keep pace sometimes. What I don't agree with is facing Koth more than other planeswalkers. Should be a fair distribution. Instead, I feel the matchmaker is biased towards choosing Koth as an opponent.
RhysMarkov wrote: it seems like the AI gets weighted towards cascades happening more frequently to compensate for it not being able to strategize on the same level as people
RhysMarkov wrote: That's not a thing? Ah well, guess it's back to the tried and true, hating on unfeeling, uncaring, arbitrary RNG then. Haha
madwren wrote: RhysMarkov wrote: That's not a thing? Ah well, guess it's back to the tried and true, hating on unfeeling, uncaring, arbitrary RNG then. Haha Don't worry, you aren't alone, it feels that way to many of us. However, the devs have insisted that isn't the case.
ZW2007- wrote: I only get suspicious when I watch the AI make a match-3 that is neither my PW's colors or the AI's and there is an on-color match available (with no possible match-4 or match-5 available on screen) and then the insane cascade comes from the heavens. Or, when the AI makes a vertical match-4 and then all 7 gems that fall into place are of the same color, giving the AI an automatic match-5 and an extra swap. Short of me recording every game I play for months and then analyzing all the data, this can all be explained away by the devs with "confirmation bias" and "visual display errors".
OhBoy wrote: tailored to reduce your mana gain
Ohboy wrote: ZW2007- wrote: I only get suspicious when I watch the AI make a match-3 that is neither my PW's colors or the AI's and there is an on-color match available (with no possible match-4 or match-5 available on screen) and then the insane cascade comes from the heavens. Or, when the AI makes a vertical match-4 and then all 7 gems that fall into place are of the same color, giving the AI an automatic match-5 and an extra swap. Short of me recording every game I play for months and then analyzing all the data, this can all be explained away by the devs with "confirmation bias" and "visual display errors". Next time try to also pay attention at the numerous times AI makes a stupid match like you described and no cascades happen. They do seemingly stupid matches quite often. There is some troll code in the match algorithm which I suspect is tailored to reduce your mana gain. It seems to kick in most often during the midgame.