Board Game Arena

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FrankJones wrote: ↑22 July 2026, 01:22 tfmbot does not start the game when I invite.

What am I doing wrong?

Disregard, I figured it out.

Good call. Internal scoring for awards didn't consider the last production phase. The logs state it was ahead with no predicted way for you to catch up in the lookahead. Then the final end game round of production happened. Fixed.

The solution i added to the above is two inputs, one's a net that scores value of combinations. Eg. Mohole+Mohole UNMI scores high as a combination. The other is raw strength. Mohole+mohole+UNMI is a known combination. It just sucks. So it picks the other known combination (CSM+all the cards that go...

Yeah agreed. Root cause is i wanted it to consider how corp+prelude+cards go together. The problem is that's all it was really considering. This game https://boardgamearena.com/archive/replay/260720-1415/?table=886290385&player=100191858&comments=96099926; gives away the issue. Heat + heat p...

A few improvements incoming: - I now have a jovian scorer. In theory I'd like this to train purely on the nets but it was playing multipliers alone because it learnt 'they're good cards'. So just added a block of code to manually score this in place of learnt information. Jovian points with multipli...

Lots of bug fixes made. Should play at a much much higher level now.

Since arena season as started you’ll need to select ‘play’ and ‘turn based’ with tfmbot added as a friend to see the games.

https://imgur.com/a/c2pJJIq

I created an AI that can play games. It's uses typical lookahead tree search and neural net state evaluation standard in these types of games. It's about 100x better than the steam AI. To play against it find friends and add 'tfmbot' to your friends list. The bot will auto accept. Only friends can s...