Post subject: All CPU players -- NES Monopoly fight
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If you didn't get the title, what I did was that I let all the 8 CPU players play against each other. I was the audience. It was very boring. I was wrong by the end. I played it on 16x speed. I allowed the CPUs to play to the finish, to show everyone who the best AI was. As I said earlier, I played it on 16x speed. It still took 5 hours. I got bored, saved, and went to bed. The next day I loaded it and they played for 5 more hours. I got bored and played some Xbox 360. They continued for 3 hours, I saved it, and I didn't use it for the rest of the day. The following day they played for an hour. And then, only three were left: Maude, Arthur, and Penelope. Maude lost quickly. Penelope couldn't pay her bill. She had to sell almost all of her belongings. Arthur was the owner of approximately $2600 and half of the board while Penelope only owned approx $100 and one or two streets and a power plant. Then something happened after an hour. (They had now played for roughly 15 hours * 16x speed = 240 game hours = 10 days of game time!) Arthur had to pay Penelope $1000. And more. She had an extreme case of luck. She got money by passing Go and stepping on Chance spaces. Arthur still had to pay her for stepping on her streets. She dodged his streets with ease. Arthur got poor quickly. He asked for a deal, but Penelope refused. His money flew away, and her money got doubled many times. She won. You rock, Penelope! Woo!
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Congratulations, Penelope! Too bad you're a computer, lol!
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Edit: I think I understand now: It's my avatar, isn't it? It makes me look angry.
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OK, now try it with all players starting with 99999 dollars.
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And you didn't record a movie of this beauty? :( Penelope doesn't at all look like I expected her to. EDIT: att = all
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All the players are clones of Rich Uncle Pennybags!
put yourself in my rocketpack if that poochie is one outrageous dude
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That's awesome. I've actually been wanting to do something like that for a long time, but I've just never had the time to do it. *Applause!*
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But wait, she won over with $17832! A whole lot of money even for a monopolist! :D
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Edit: I think I understand now: It's my avatar, isn't it? It makes me look angry.
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Truncated wrote:
And you didn't record a movie of this beauty? :( Penelope doesn't at att look like I expected her to.
At att? I won't record a movie, you can do it yourself. Just choose all 8 players and end the input. Easy as that.
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A little problem. The rolls that the CPU's make are highly dependent on random variables. You can't just start up the game and expect it to be the same every time. Unless you ran it from a movie.
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FractalFusion wrote:
A little problem. The rolls that the CPU's make are highly dependent on random variables. You can't just start up the game and expect it to be the same every time. Unless you ran it from a movie.
Or unless you use the same input to begin it (e.g. optimizing the amount of frames to start the game with eight computer players).
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Isn't that what FractalFusion meant? Use the same movie to start the game with the same input?
put yourself in my rocketpack if that poochie is one outrageous dude
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If it's a movie, yes. If it's not a movie, it has to be the same input for it to work.
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Here's one version of Monopoly War. It's only about 1 hour long though.