Existing Gameplay Changes by dynamic_pupil

[grizzled dirge]

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[thorny shore]

I'm all for a fast forward button when no other humans remain, I don't think it's a great idea for public games normally however.

You may have 2 players before you that are bots, so you have very little time to prepare Vs the opponent 2 ahead of you that has 2 humans before them

[deep lintel]

Once a human player reaches Intermediate, I estimate < 1% chance that a bot can defeat the human 1-1 (some late game fixed card scenarios). This is even more clear in progressive, where bots will take board or break bonuses… but simply can’t “actually hurt” a human player. At high level play, humans manipulate bots into pathing (attacting stack for defense; bullying bot to push into opponent)… I don’t think humans are considering the bots in their planning at all (which is why the “scumbag bot out and return” is so voraciously hated among this discord: the bot is ignored since it “can’t win”, and then the player returns with a far superior position than they could have negotiated personally). It might appear to be an inequity of planning time; but the player base simply don’t care what actions the bot executes until SMG can introduce machine learning to create a Master-level-AI…