In addition, I tinkered with the strategy of the Spades bots. There are small changes in their bidding and also in the way that they play.
Please keep in mind that sometimes it's hard to know what to bid, and the bots are not perfect! If you spot a particularly egregious bidding or playing error, where it's obvious that a bot did something bone-headed in the course of a hand of cards, and you want to do something to help correct it, you can! Please try to remember to download the hand history as soon as that hand is finished. Once you download it, you can send it to me, and tell me what you think was wrong. With this information, I can rework the code to improve the bots.
For those who do not know about the hand history, that is just a small text file with a URL (link) in it. The link is to a "replayer" at World of Card Games. When you copy and paste the URL into a web browser, you will get a "replay" of that hand, showing who bid what, and how each card was played. All the cards will be shown face-up straight from the start. This link is an example of a "hand history". You can click it to see how it works. But don't click it if you are currently playing a game at World of Card Games; it will not work, in that case.
You can only download the hand history if you are a registered user and signed in. Also, it's only available for 30 seconds after the hand finishes. So grab it quickly if you want to save it! To download it, click the little floppy disk icon that appears near your avatar. You can see that in the screenshot, below:
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| click the floppy disk icon to download hand history |
6 comments:
No relation to the current post, but out of curiosity, why does my quit rate seem to go up but not go down, even if i dont quit a game.?
Hi! There's a blog post that explains how the "quit ratio" works. Please click that link for more information. If you don't quit for enough games in a row, your quit ratio will decrease.
Hi Marya,
a game was played few days ago and the bot teamed with was baggging ALOT(2 bags, 3 bags, .. OMG).
I did not like.. will make sure to provide the hand next time.
Oh, a rematch was once suggested, is this a possibility?
When you played a game with good players.. why not rematch!
Regards
Probably the bots are a bit too cautious when taking tricks. They like to set the opponents and they don't like to get set, either. So yes, they do tend to grab extra bags at times. I tend to do that, too :)
If you see them do something too awful, feel free to download the replayer and send it to me. I may be able to fix it.
I've got it on my to-do list to allow a rematch. I don't have much time to work on the site, recently. Eventually, though, I hope to make this possible.
Is it possible to download the entire game hand history?
Thanks.
No, that is not possible. You can only download a single hand history at a time. I have not had this requested by many people, so I'm not sure if this is something that people really want.
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