PSCD 1.1.2 - new romances/cards and quick match mode

[Franka]

I made a small experiment. First screenshot is how long it took for the AI to play all its 20 cards with AI resources set to minimum (1/1). Second screenshot is how long it took for the AI to play all its 20 cards with AI resources set to maximum (5/5). Same AI deck (Robobrains).

There's something wrong here.

[Franka]

Also, is there any reason why we always play as Diana in Quick Play, or was that just convenient?

[jack1974]

Ugh yes, that doesn't look OK I need to find out what's going on with the summon...
As for Diana I guess is the default character, so yeah it was just convenient

[jack1974]

OK well the summon is simple: the AI will always summon 1 card so if has high resource can summon/play a more expensive card, but otherwise, it will still play just one.
I am going to leave as it is for two reasons:
1) after messing up a bit, I have no clue how to change this, so I should ask Anima and I think he's currently busy
2) even if I successfully change this, all the campaign battles would change (be MUCH harder). And doing this now would be suicide since they are all tested and well balanced already

[Franka]

You should probably just remove the resource sliders then, and just decide on a standard. For what it's worth, the AI doesn't even seem to play the "strongest" cards until late in the game, regardless of how I set the resources. As you can see in the two pictures, the AI saved some of the rarer units for last in both examples (even though it's drawn its entire deck before turn 20).

Also, I'm not quite sure I understand why the AI plays much more aggressively in the last missions of the story campaign, clearly SOMEthing does work SOMEwhere in the code.

[jack1974]

I'll keep the sliders, since they should still change the matches. +5 each turn = the AI could play a 5 resource value the next turn. I said that they always seem to play just one card, not the SAME card
The AI is definitely the weakest point of the engine, but it's coded in a way that I don't even understand what's going on, and without coder's help I can't do anything

[jack1974]

Haha nevermind!!!
The reason is that my hack to change the resources wasn't actually working. It was always using the default set in the mission! that's why you were getting the same results. I need to check how to make that work, I manually changed the values and the AI summoned 4 units the first round!!!

[jack1974]

OK fixed it. I had to make the "Ultimate Challenge" easier, otherwise was basically impossible

[Franka]

Sounds good! I knew there was something wrong...

[jack1974]

Thanks for finding this out