Computer Ra!
Posted by Rob Herman at July 27th, 2007
Play against AIs. Nowhere near as good as the real thing, but when it’s 2:30 AM and you gotta have your fix, it’s available here.
http://snapper.rooms.cwal.net/games.html
The interface is very nice. The AI is decent but has a couple weaknesses that can be exploited:
- It won’t call Ra with the intention of buying the lot with its non-highest sun. This means you can often get some good bargains on lots of 5-6 decent tiles early on each epoch.
- It doesn’t take into account the value of holding onto a high-powered sun into the next round. For instance, if the Ra track is all-but-one, it would rather buy a single Pharaoh or River with its 13 -valued sun than either hold out for a good lot or be willing to take its 13 into the next epoch.
Fun. Runs under wine with no problems.
I think the interface is good, but the bots are really bad. I played one game with 3 bots and me, not even trying to guess what the bots would do. I won 68 to 37 to even worse. The AI also seem deathly afraid of any disaster.