AI and problematic cards

I do like to point out extra movement cards (not their basic movement card drawn each round) in monster decks when they are only cards left - they very often will use them when that's their only 1-2 cards remaining in hand, often allowing you to pass turn and gain 1st move - it's really strange because sometimes they will just use the card and change the their facing.

 

Never seen those 2 cards being played.

 

Could be that they are newly added to their decks and not implemented in the ai yet as i am fairly sure they didn't have them the first time i beat them.

What do they do if i may ask?

 

Well that would make sense in their decks i guess.

 

Everlasting Ground adds 1 to the duration of all terrain attachments. Blooming Ground copies the terrain attachment of the target square into all adjacent squares that don't already have it. So basically you could cast Hot Spot and then target that square with Blooming Ground to fill all adjacent squares with lava... sort of a 2-turn combo for a faux Pool of Lava.

...but I only "know" this because I clicked on them in the card log after they were discarded. I also have never seen them actually be played.

For that matter, in those adventures the geomancers routinely don't play terrain-altering cards in their hand just because I'm already standing on one. They throw down a Cave In and then just let me trudge over harmless difficult terrain for three turns while discarding Pool of Lavas and Pool of Acids and Wall of Fires and Cave Ins and Rock Falls and all sorts of other terrain-altering cards that actually would damage me if they used them. But the instant the terrain under my feet disappears or I step off of it then they suddenly start using those cards again.

I've taken to bringing a Rock Fall down right in front of me and then moving on to it - I take no damage and have a few turns to get closer while they refuse to play any cards. Could use being looked it.

 

Well, "just" using a card to change facing is a perfectly valid action if they're afraid of letting you behind them.

Using a movement card to do literally nothing could be a problem, though. I personally do such a thing as a stalling tactic (without hitting "pass" and risking having the round end) so there technically are circumstances where the computer might do this, but it does seem arbitrary at times.

As to the not-using-terrain-cards-when-there's-already-terrain-out issue, yeah, the computer behaves blindly on this.

 

Hey, Arcing Spark isn't behaving as I expected in the AI's hands. It could be that the AI doesn't know how to use it, or it could be implemented in a confusing manner.

"Up to three different targets," "each target must be within three squares of another." The enemy shocked one of my team, then another who was three squares away. The third team member was a mere one square beyond the second target, which is valid by the text of the card. The AI did not, however, target the third one.

I don't own this card, so I have to ask: is the implementation funny (i.e., counting "three squares" only off of the first target), or did the AI just miss a chance to shock me?

 

Is there a chance the third target was outside of max range?

 

probably works like wall of fire so it takes both range and line of sight in to account

 

Let's see . . . this was on the last gladiatorial arena level, with the wide-open floorplan, so there was no line-of-sight blocking terrain. Thanks to the wiki, I see the range is 8, which covers almost the entire map, and the targets were only about four squares distant (from the caster) anyway.

Therefore, either the card is erroneously counting "three squares" only off of the first target (contrary to the description in the card rules), or the AI didn't think to chain the third target. And I'm back to asking: does anybody own the card? Can anyone check "who's got the glitch"?

 

I got it but cant make the ai stand the way i want so i would need a pvp partner to test it

 

another one for weird ai behaviour...well as long as it wants to win
i fought the last battle in the highway robbery...with the chieftain and his shaman...and screwed up somewhat...i was left with only my mage und 4 hp and the chieftain had some attacks left...each enough to kill me...and a movement card that should be able to get him in range for a hit...and he just passed...i actually expected a game over there and he didnt go for the killing blow and the shaman did not try to cut me off(tho i dont know if he still had moves)

 

We've been informed before that Gary is programmed to pass sometimes at random. You got lucky and had this pass go in your advantage; other times, it messes with you.

 

Had a Kobold Priest kill a Kobold Warrior (had 1 hp left) with Unholy Frenzy in the Shaman's Hut.