Did the simplified AI solution based on a controlled world system ever reach this page or didnt i read the answers fast enough for it to keep it in the mills
If I got answers what is the specific archive it has ended in...
Sigh. It is probably gone forever. Rakso loves to delete things lol. Threads only last 2-3 days. You need to check within a week to see it on Last Week, or else you will never see it again.
This is your last post, about the 40 healing salve/40 lightening bolt decks and such
http://www.bdominia.com/discus/messages/9/22619.shtml?
Sad thing it is...
It was simple in a way...
Imagine a deck... (should be simple)
Now the sum of possible plays should be considered...
(things like tap this to do that, destroy target whatever, regenerate blah blah and so on)
This would be referred to as actions...
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Second, imagine a brain consisting of 1000 thoughts, 50% of these thoughts will be conditional, only fully thought out if a specific action has been executed...
example: regenerate troll with R if you reach 10 life...
This action is also bound by the fact that you may not even have that troll on the board or even the mana, but thats not to be worried about...
So this example should be: regenerate troll with R, when the thought is without conditions...
The brains thoughts are locked and can never be changed, so a conditioned thought cannot be unconditional and vice versa.
Now each phase and stackeffect resolved the brain runs down these thoughts, and uses the first possible action encountered, this starts over for each effect, when the brain reaches the bottom it continues to next phase or let the top stackeffect resolve...
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Now if the said deck had lightning bolts in it there is a chance that the thought "lightningbolt opponent with R" is in between the 1000 thoughts.
Also "play a land" ought to end in there...
This means that the brain (if randomization has favored it) is able to bolt the opponent...
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Then create a bunch of "brains" following these rules, As per my theory 3 could do it... (but the more the better...
Let two random brains enter a magicgame with the choosen deck (In further concepts brains could be given different decks)...
The loser will be erradicated forever (and because of library death there will be one),
While the winner is copied with a few mutations...
Mutations may be:
A: two thoughts swich places on the 1000 list, this will alter the brains concept of what actions to do first...
B: a thought is altered in its action, the new action is randomly chosen among all possible actions, if the thought is conditioned it keeps that condition...
C: a thoughts condition is altered, if it has one, to another random condition...
D: a thought either gains or loses conditioning, depending on its former status...
About 20% of the thoughts from the "parent" should be altered with these mutations in the brain replacing the loser...
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Do you see the possibilities over time???
The hard thing is to come up with all the ACTIONS that would be possible...
You would have to include things like "lightningbolt yourself with R if you have above 0 life", because if there was ever a way to use that aspect to win it would have to be in there for the brains to mutate that kind of behaviour into themselves (or rather their children)
Wicked darkman