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Shatterhouse wrote:I think I have a workaround for the AI's seeming retardedness when playing against your custom decks.

Instead of using DATASET="COMMUNITY", try DATASET="Chandra" or another planeswalker instead. I suspect this field is a signal to the AI that tells it what to look for in its opening hand, and maybe how to play against the deck.

Shatterhouse, it seems like the AI works properly when both you and the computer are using the same dataset in the decks files; ie. either change their dataset to COMMUNITY as I suggested above, or put CHANDRA/planeswalker for your own dataset like you suggested. (I haven't tried the latter method, but wouldn't that mean custom cards won't be included?)

gessepi wrote:Thanks for the advice about changing to <DATASET name="Community"/>. Question is, is that a sure fire fix? because i tried and it really only works on the first deck i play, any rematches or even proceeding to the next deck they seem to give up again.

Gessepi, I certainly don't put it forward as a surefire fix because I know there are other bugs (like computer attacking with a black creature when I have a creature with protection from black; or computer committing suicide with earthquake), but it works for me as far as the "tired" AI problem goes. It works for my first match and for as many matches thereafter as I care to play.

I have read elsewhere that for some people the AI works for the first match only and then stops working, and then they have to exit and restart the program to get it to work again. But I've never had that particular problem and my AI has gone from never working (for custom decks) to always working after I made the dataset changes.

Oh, der, it didn't occur to me that you can change the AI decks' dataset same as you can change your own. I think it might be better to do it that way since I seem to be getting fewer crashes when testing new cards.

I dunno if it would work for you guys but i first start a game with a deck that isn't custom built and on the next game use any of the custom decks. When i do this, the AI doesn't 'discard over and over' again.

***I have a problem,why does dotp crash when i start playing mishra?

I just had a situation like this on an UNMODDED game, for some reason. I used Liliana's deck vs Garruk's, and he just kept dropping down lands without playing anything. At first I forced him to discard Terra Stomper and Craw Wurm, making it look like he took some terrible hand he should've mulliganed, but once he had 5 lands down, I forced him to discard a Stomper Cub and Garruk's Packleader, and the turn after that a Nature's Lore.

It was a one-time only problem though, as I played 2 more games in which he fortunately played cards again.