Hi Jim, Your Monopoly game has promise, but I think a few small corrections in the way the computer does business would go a long way to improving the game play. For example, when I play and I start getting low on cash I stop buying property and houses until I build up a bit of a reserve. That way I don't go to much in to debt by morgadging all my properties. However, the computer AI player will land on an expensive property, have limitted funds, and instead of trying to buy it later buys right then, and morgadges several properties to obtain the property. That is a very risky move, and can be a suicidal act in the end if the computer player doesn't know how to recover from that kind of move properly. Which it usually doesn't, and continues to lose money rather than continue picking up income. Here is a clear example of a mistake the computer player makes. It usually tries to unmorgadge the most expensive properties, and start building there first. Good if you have the funds to do it, but bad if you have limited funds. Well, in my last game the computer player had all the green properties, red, and light blue. All of them were morgadged and the computer just went around go. It unmorgadged a green property. However, a more financially sound investment might have been to unmorgadge the light blue, and then build a few houses on it in time so that there would be some income coming in besides the $14, and so on from the empty properties. The income from the light blue properties could have been used to pull say the red out of debt, and once started building on that the player could have started in too the green. What I am saying in monopoly as in real life building a monopoly takes starting from the least expensive investments and as you increase investments, build upwards until u reach the final goal.
Jim Kitchen wrote: > Hi Thomas, > > I only win about half of the time against the Monopoly computer player. I > guess that I just ain't so good at playing Monopoly or writing the artificial > intelligence for it. So I reckon that you will have to do as you said and > crank out a Monopoly game in between one of your finished projects. > _______________________________________________ Gamers mailing list .. Gamers@audyssey.org To unsubscribe send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can visit http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org to make any subscription changes via the web.