AI gem swaps

While I disagree that the AI is "cheating" in any way, I do agree that it is sometimes a little too optimized for my taste.  Being able to make multiple primary color swaps per turn while leaving me with nothing but loyalty swaps at clutch moments is quite frustrating.

There is no discernible pattern though. The only consistent theory is that if you are running a lower quality deck than your opponent you can get quite easily overrun.  The only solution for improving gameplay is to improve matchmaking.

Most of my event losses in the past few weeks have been from players submitting decks that have not been modified for objectives.  There were only a few losses to decks where I spotted at least one card that could be used to satisfy an objective.

Ohboy said:

toastie said:

Ohboy said:

toastie said:

I believe the suggested gem is the one that the AI would take

It's not. I've tested this many times. 

Interesting. How did you test this?

Mirror match, I match something on a top corner instead of the suggested gem. 

AI doesn't take its own suggestion. 

I've experienced quite the opposite, however, with a caveat.  When the AI makes a suggestion which I then ignore in favor of a different match, my experience thus far is that the AI will consistently take the match that it suggested a moment ago.

However, if my defiance results in a gem arrangement which offers a superior match for the AI - a more appropriate color match, a four-fer, or a fiver, for example - the AI will not take it's original suggestion and go with the more favorable match.

In addition, I have encountered a few "defiant matches" which actually resulted in a rather favorable cascade.  Being the ghost-in-the-machine cynic that I am, it's my belief that the AI is intentionally attempting to mislead me away from the cascade.  So ultimately, I believe that the AI does have insight as to what's coming next and I need to decide if I want to take the red pill gem, or the blue pill gem.

Of course, all of this is bereft of any sort of scientific method and based purely on my emotional opinion of the game AI being a Cheatyface.

It's silly to think the AI knows of cascades 27 rows above the board, when it doesn't even see cascades sitting in front of its own face.

As for the AI suggesting gems different from those it would pick, the AI prioritizes matches which would pop your supports or activate gems.  So, it might be suggesting the same for you "if I were you, I'd totally try to break my reinforced Mirrorpool."  But when it's their turn, they're trying to break your Mirrorpool, not theirs. The AI also seems to enjoy matching the colors of the opponent over matching its own colors.

In the very early days of the game, the developers acted like this was some sort of clever strategy - to try to break your opponent's supports through matching their gems.  Ruin your opponent's chances of getting a color match by matching their gems first.  Most human players don't do this, unless they're desperately trying to get rid of a 1-shield Hixus or if they're playing against Koth and there's a red match on board.

Gormhaus said:

I just played another match of the luckiest ai ever. The ai should be buying lottery tickets its so lucky. I wish there was an upload battle log function.

There is, sort of, in that you can take a series of screenshots of the Battle Log and then post them online.

Although it's probably too late for that, now.

I doubt the AI cheats. It's so dumb that it can sometimes miss a 5-match of its own colour if the 5-match was generated by its own gem converters. And we're not event talking about the regular off-colour 5-matches they miss.

The AI cascades can be frustrating sometimes but most of the time I experience that I cascade more than the AI. And that's including random cascades from the heavens which I get as opposed to the AI.

Just a small tip on gem matching. Even if two matches seemingly give you the same mana, check if one of them has a (higher) chance of cascades from the heavens. Let's say you have a horizontal Black match (hB) and a vertical Black match (vB). And say vB looks like this
--Sky--
BUW
BRR
GBL

While hB looks like
--Sky--
RUB
BBR
ULW

There are only 6 different types of gems which can be generated from the sky. So vB gives a 16.7% chance to get a free Red match.

Say instead vB was
--Sky--
BUU
BRR
GBL

You now have a 30.6% chance of an extra match (whether Red or Blue). Spotting these things instead of letting the AI match the superior choice might make the difference in your cascade from the heavens experience.

It is garbage. whatever u call it. since 2.0 the game is worse. im tired of watching the ai have one turn of greatness and u lose.

u cant recover in the stupid enrage event that always are on.

i seldomly play anymore. i dont even bother in events. its just plain boring.....oh im winning.......ai turn..... match...match...match...olivia....tyrant...u lose    yay! 50 runes....

One turn ... matched 3 green gems that fell perfectly for a 5 red gem match and the rest is all one turn.....
this is soooooo frequent since the patch.

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To be honest, 60 mana in one turn is pretty normal with Koth.