Card AI (Improvements) Requests

[cc-drake]

AI doesn't activate Cunning Advisor

[Diogenes]

You rock Sloth.

A friend of mine mentioned this one to me, and I've confirmed it in 1.2.11: the AI will cast Stifle to prevent your City of Brass's activated ability (which does one damage to you whenever it becomes tapped, you still get the mana.)

I've tried this with Psychic Venom as well, and the AI won't Stifle a Psychic Venom it controls, but will use it on yours even if (for some odd reason) you decide to enchant your own land. Amusingly, in the process of testing with two decks loaded with these cards, the AI is willing to take Psychic Venom damage to prevent your City of Brass from hurting you.

[friarsol]

You rock Sloth.

A friend of mine mentioned this one to me, and I've confirmed it in 1.2.11: the AI will cast Stifle to prevent your City of Brass's activated ability (which does one damage to you whenever it becomes tapped, you still get the mana.)

Just to clarify the ability being targeted is the triggered ability (since mana abilities can't be targeted). It's definitely not too bright in this circumstance.

[Bundy]

Computer controls Kavu Chameleon and activates it's ability till it runs out of
And he uses the ability to turn Kavu Chameleon from green to... green

[mcrawford620]

Computer controls Kavu Chameleon and activates it's ability till it runs out of
And he uses the ability to turn Kavu Chameleon from green to... green

Fixed, in the sense that Computer won't activate that ability any more.
Other "Change Color" cards have an AILogic tag that tells the AI which color to pick. The current choices are:
"MostProminentInHumanDeck"
"MostProminentInComputerDeck"
"MostProminentInGame"
"MostProminentHumanCreatures"
"MostProminentComputerControls"
"MostProminentPermanent"
"MostProminentAttackers"
or whatever else you can think of can be added, of course.

But I don't know what you would do with Kavu Chameleon or Caldera Kavu, which is just another random one I happened to find. So those don't have any AILogic tags, so the computer just won't activate those abilities. Because right now the computer is always choosing Green if it has no further instructions.

Anyways, thanks Bundy.

[Zirbert]

The AI will play Animate Artifact on an artifact creature if it has no non-creature artifacts on the battlefield. The corner cases where this would be a good play (to trigger an Argothian Enchantress, trying to reduce hand size against a Black Vise, etc.) probably don't outweigh its usual pointlessness.

[Zirbert]

The AI played a Kor Sanctifiers when I had no artifacts or enchantments in play, and paid the kicker to destroy its own Manalith.

[mcrawford620]

AI paid to use the ability of Onyx Mage to give himself Deathtouch when he didn't need it. His attack was greater than the toughness of any creature I had, so it would have killed my creature anyways.

And did the same when I had no creatures available to block (all were tapped).

[cc-drake]

- AI casts Fury Charm to remove 2 time counters from nothing. There were no time counters anywhere to target.

[mcrawford620]

AI paid to use the ability of Onyx Mage to give himself Deathtouch when he didn't need it.

Fixed this with some Deathtouch logic.

[Bundy]

I believe this has been reported before, but here it is again ...
Computer casts Sculpting Steel when there are no artifacts in play. Placing your mouse over Sculpting Steel then gives this error:

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Version:
Forge version 1.2.11-r16432

OS: Windows 7 Version: 6.1 Architecture: x86

Java Version: 1.7.0_05 Vendor: Oracle Corporation

Detailed error trace:
java.lang.NullPointerException
at forge.Card.getText(Card.java:2120)
at forge.gui.CardDetailPanel.setCard(CardDetailPanel.java:235)
at forge.gui.match.controllers.CDetail.showCard(CDetail.java:51)
at forge.gui.match.CMatchUI.setCard(CMatchUI.java:198)
at forge.view.arcane.CardPanelContainer$1.mouseMoved(CardPanelContainer.java:141)
at java.awt.AWTEventMulticaster.mouseMoved(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.Component.processMouseMotionEvent(Unknown Source)
at javax.swing.JComponent.processMouseMotionEvent(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.Component.processEvent(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.Container.processEvent(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.Component.dispatchEventImpl(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.Container.dispatchEventImpl(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.Component.dispatchEvent(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.LightweightDispatcher.retargetMouseEvent(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.LightweightDispatcher.processMouseEvent(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.LightweightDispatcher.dispatchEvent(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.Container.dispatchEventImpl(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.Window.dispatchEventImpl(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.Component.dispatchEvent(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEventImpl(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.EventQueue.access$000(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.EventQueue$3.run(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.EventQueue$3.run(Unknown Source)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at java.security.ProtectionDomain$1.doIntersectionPrivilege(Unknown Source)
at java.security.ProtectionDomain$1.doIntersectionPrivilege(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.EventQueue$4.run(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.EventQueue$4.run(Unknown Source)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at java.security.ProtectionDomain$1.doIntersectionPrivilege(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEvent(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpOneEventForFilters(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForFilter(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForHierarchy(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.run(Unknown Source)

[moomarc]

- AI casts Fury Charm to remove 2 time counters from nothing. There were no time counters anywhere to target.

I'd hoped that the AI would use one of the other two abilities. Oh well... removed it from AI decks. Thanks for reporting.

[cc-drake]

- AI completely ignores my Mana Flare...
- I control a 1/1 Spirit token from Midnight Haunting and a Mantis Engine. AI controls a Molten Hydra with 4 +1/+1 counters. AI uses his Hydra to destroy the Spirit token.
- AI uses Rod of Ruin to deal 1 damage to my 2/2 creature equipped with Inquisitor's Flail. I guess AI doesn't realize that only combat damage is doubled.

[Milod]

ai control of artifacts(equipment) to its creatures is verry poor it needs some improvments here

[cc-drake]

- AI enchants it's Leaden Myr with Animate Artifact
- AI activates Defender en-Vec several times without reason