Bot Difficulty (levels)

Comments: 13

• 06 Jan, '20
  player

  Right now I think the bot has a mix of levels so it feels inconsistent and at times unenjoyable. Some moves are aggressive/competitive, and some moves are aimless and stupid (not anticipating future score from longest road/largest army, key positions, etc.,), and the trading sucks.

• 09 Feb, '20
  player Merged

  If someone is new to the game, it would seem helpful to have a "friendly bot" option. Right now it seems like the bot has a number of hard coded competitive strategies that just screw over the game board from the start. By picking friendly bot, the bot would be more generous/fair/balanced in it's starting locations.
  
  Suggested "friendly" changes: Make the bot pick spots for a good selection of starting resources rather than aiming to monopolize all of one resource (which only appears to work

• 09 Feb, '20
  player Merged

  Friendly bot should also limit road building, building roads only towards places it can build and intends to build (not road spam as it does now). Friendly bot should also not cheat by knowing cards have VPs in their hand.

• 10 Feb, '20
  player Merged

  Friendly Robber would also back off on aggressive tactics like: robbing you and then robbing you again with a knight (if it doesn't allow an immediate play), or moving a robber using a knight card when it isn't on them (it's only on an opponent).

• 13 May, '20
  Sasha Wilde Admin

  "Choosing Bot Levels" (suggested by chewtrav on 2020-03-26), including upvotes (6) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.

• 11 Aug, '20
  Beryl

  Agreed. Bots building roads to other player settlements. WHY BOT? Stop wasting your resources.

• 29 Aug, '20
  JUAN Admin

  "Friendly bot option" (suggested by player on 2020-02-09), including upvotes (1) and comments (2), was merged into this suggestion.

• 04 Sep, '20
  Zev

  I absolutely agree. We should have different levels of bot difficulty, or different bot "personalities"/strategies.

• 08 Dec, '20
  David Bodycombe

  I know human interaction is the primary way to play this game, but for quick games Bots can be great. Some harder bots would be fabulous. I think I'm currently on a 90%+ win rate, and I'm not *that* good.

• 31 Dec, '20
  Kristin Pruett

  Please add some different bot difficulty levels

• 07 Oct, '22
  C Merged

  Your Ai is way too hard. I just wish you had difficulty levels. It would allow players looking to hone their skills to actually hone their skills. I know I suck but damn the times that I have played the Ai and taken over the game the bots seem to gang up. Also a mobile version. But seriously help me out and give me difficulty levels brooo.

• 08 Oct, '22
  JUAN Admin

  "Bot levels" (suggested by C on 2022-10-07), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.

• 30 Oct, '22
  AlexInAuburn

  Maybe create a Bot builder utility where players can train a Bot and give it the characteristics and skills that they would like it to have. They can then play against that Bot and hone it to their liking. If they get a nice combination of traits, then they can name it, submit it to Colonist, and earn a few Colonist Coin if it is adopted as a Colonist Bot. There could be a bot ranking feature that gives a consensus vote as to the difficulty level of each Colonist bot.