Requests for AI improvements

[BAgate]

AI keeps playing orzhov basilica (which requires unsummoning a land) and chooses to unsummon the orzhov basilica. He then does this every turn, effectively preventing him from ever playing another land. Is there some way to prevent the AI from choosing the land that was just played (or even better any land that unsummons another land)?

[PGM]

Blightsteel Colossus - AI never blocks Blightsteel Colossus. That means that a Blightsteel Colossus attack means an automatic win.

Ball Lightning - When defending, AI always blocks Ball Lightning with small creatures to kill it, disregarding the trample ability. When attacking, AI will not attack with Ball Lightning if defender has an untapped creature with enough power to block and kill it, disregarding the trample ability and the end-of-turn effect.

[Aswan jaguar]

AI uses Water Servant ability really bad, 2 times it gave +1/-1 before AI attacked to the point that my blocker could destroy it.
1- AI gave Water Servant one +1/-1 making it a 4/3 to attack me while I had only a 3/3 defender.
2- AI gave 3, +1/-1 to Water Servant making it a 6/1 to attack me while I had only a 1/1 defender!

[Zloy]

AI ignores deathtouch, indestructible, defeat or victory by poison counters and dude lands and artifacts.

[wickedgarden]

Hi, I'm new to the site, thanks for the game btw. I searched but didn't know where to put this question, so rather than open a new thread, I just put it here.

I notice that in the "Bugs" section after someone posts a problem, there may or may not be a reply stating that it's fixed. Does this mean that there's a new update each time this is done? Or is this just something that is said stating it will be fixed when the next patch comes out? It doesn't seem likely that the download link is updated after each "bug fix" is replied to, though I thought I'd ask in case it was.

Thanks.

[Aswan jaguar]

this just something that is said stating it will be fixed when the next patch comes out

That's the case.

[Aswan jaguar]

Describe the Bug:
I saw this bad AI defending choices for the first time in 2 games I had yesterday and I have never seen that before.I attacked with all my creatures and AI has enough blockers not to loose the game but I played this attack more than 10 times (always attacking with everything)and everytime AI makes wrong decisions [choosing not to block with all his creatures,some to tap one of his creatures with Puppeteer or untap one of my attackers (a card that AI certainly doesn't play well is Puppeteer)]and looses the game.Maybe another card besides Puppeteer makes AI to behave so foolishly.

Which card did behave improperly ?


Which update are you using?(date,name)Which type(Duel,Gauntlet,Sealed Deck)
times piral.v2

What exactly should be the correct behavior/interaction ?


Are any other cards possibly affected by this bug ?

[Aswan jaguar]

AI likes to play Squirrel Nest on an opponents land but that is rarely what you want to do with it.
Savegame post above.

[Gargaroz]

Fixed the Squirrel Nest thing.

[porphyre]

1) Is it possible to change the priority the AI places when auto-tapping lands? When I double-click to cast a spell, it appears to tap mono-colored lands first, then Urza's Saga lands (Academy, Cradle, Sanctum), then any multi-colored land. That's stupid and often causes problems. The Urza lands should only be auto-tapped when they're the last thing left to draw mana from.

2) What's up with Wood Elves?? The AI loves to kill those guys. Can you change the priority on that? If I have a Wood Elves plus Priest of Titania or, well, any 1/1 creature no matter how awesome (Scute Mob w/ 4 lands, Champion of Lamholt, etc) it zaps the Wood Elves. Wood Elves should never be Lightning Bolted before Priest of Titania... Or maybe that's an issue with the Priest?

[stassy]

2) I would say maybe yes, because Wood Elves have AI base value of 20 while Priest of Titania is...19
Not sure if that will help, but I will send a modification to Sonic so he will modify the csv accordingly (though if I set the AI base value with the current norms, Wood Elves might still be bolted before Priest of Titania as both will have their AI base value to 10 (which is the value for anything that only has a generating mana/land ability).

[porphyre]

That's kinda my point. Wood Elves has a come into play ability and no activated or static abilities. Once he hits the table, he's just a 1/1 Green Elf creature. 9 times out of 10, you're going to blow up every other creature on the field before you try to shoot him. Wood Elves should have the same value as Elvish Visionary.

[stassy]

I know, but as I said in my post above, 10 is currently the value for everything that only generate mana or land. In a way, Wood Elves do permanently add a mana generation since you do fetch one land from your library.

As we are still currently in process of giving an AI base value to every coded cards, I would prefer to still use a basic ranking first then when it's done start tweaking it.

This ranking is not good at all, but that is the fastest only way we found in order to make draft mode playable asap.

Unless there is another way that can automatically and immediately add a value to 8000 cards (a bit less than half of the whole mtg cards are AI base value coded, from Old Ravnica to 2013) we'll have to deal with it.

[stassy]

AI doesn't seems able to block with Corpse Blockade

AI always target player creatures when playing Teetering Peaks

[Aquillion]

Not sure if this falls under "extreme multi-purpose", but the AI is pretty bad at using Cryptic Command. It will almost always choose to return a creature to your hand and to tap all of your creatures, even if that doesn't make sense and it ought to be drawing a card for one of those. I've seen it do it even when I only have one untapped creature out and it's returning that creature to my hand.

The main issue, as far as I can tell, is that it doesn't understand that it gets both effects (that is, it makes the choice for each effect without considering the other effect), so if there's a creature it wants to keep from blocking, it will try to deal with it twice.

Of course, Cryptic Command is such a good card that it tends to benefit them even when they're using it badly, so it might not be a pressing issue.