On 12/17/05, meldeiry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jason and John, > > I have a few questions about possible features. I don't know > whether they're possible, or even useful, since I don't know as much > about the game as you guys, and I don't know anything about > programming. But here they are: > > 1) Can it be programmed so that you just enter the whole game and > then it spits out an analysis for you, play by play? It occurs to > me that this would be a huge improvement over Maven, which only lets > you sim one position at a time. What a pain.
This is one of the features I'd most like myself, and I'm sure it will get done. > 2) Is there anyway the simmer can breakdown differences in equity? > How much of the 5 point improvement of this play over that one is > because it doesn't put a vowel next to a TWL? How much is because > of a superior leave? Etc. > > 3) Finally, I think it would be really neat if the simming engine > could tell you when a certain play by you our your opponent follows > your candidate play a large percentage of the time. This might be > particularly useful in the endgame. For example, if I drop 1 tile > to fish, what percent of the time do I bingo? I guess this would > require an inference engine to be accurate, since the opponent is > likely to respond by closing lines. How often does a certain setup > work? Is play X a mistake because 85% of the time opponent can > respond with QAT for 60? (That would have to be a pretty dumb play!) 2 and 3 are harder to answer. I often ask such questions myself, and using Maven, I'm able to get the most of the answers by recording a sim and putting the simulation log through a one-line script at a command line. At the very least, Quackle will be able to output a simulation log like Maven's. I realize that this is not a solution for non-programmers. We might be able to create some simple internal scripting language or a GUI in Quackle to answer these questions, but that would be a lot of work just to approximate what I can already do with tools like grep and awk. Most of the feature requests I've gotten from people so far are things Jason and I have already thought of that will be easy to implement. Yours would be a challenge, but that's the kind of thing we're looking for. John ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/0liolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/quackle/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
