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    • C Offline
      chp2001
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      I would honestly play ladder more if I could match against an AI if there are no people around. even if I got no rating from wins it would let me try out the ladder pool and learn how to play different maps without having to do all the setup myself

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        veteranashe @chp2001
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        @chp2001 said in AIs in ladder:

        I would honestly play ladder more if I could match against an AI if there are no people around. even if I got no rating from wins it would let me try out the ladder pool and learn how to play different maps without having to do all the setup myself

        Perhaps best reason for ai right here

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          Reckless_Charger
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          The alternative to allow one to quickly try out ladder maps against an AI is to have a button in the lobby of a custom game to quickly choose randomly from amongst the ladder pool. Still wouldn't set up AI for you though.

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          • ValkiV Offline
            Valki @chp2001
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            @chp2001 said in AIs in ladder:

            I would honestly play ladder more if I could match against an AI if there are no people around. even if I got no rating from wins it would let me try out the ladder pool and learn how to play different maps without having to do all the setup myself

            Still I think it would be better if it did give rating up to a certain level - like 0-rating, so negative rated people can develop rating.

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            • SwkollS Offline
              Swkoll Global Moderator
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              Letting the AI's rating function like a normal player rating is probably ideal in order to prevent trueskill inflation/deflation.

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              • arma473A Offline
                arma473
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                If certain people lack the motivation or willpower to set up a custom 1v1 game against an AI on a ladder map, we should not be designing FAF ladder architecture to cater to those people. No offense. I'm 100% in favor of letting everybody coexist and use the FAF platform even if they have different playstyles/motivation than me. But I think it's crazy to change the ladder in order to accommodate those people. Ladder should always be about playing against other people. You can approach it casually, you can tryhard it, you can sandbox a dozen build orders or just drop in and see what happens. But it should always be about human vs. human and nothing else.

                What even is the endpoint of designing an AI that's good enough to replace a human ladder player? We want to cutting off one form of human-human interaction and replace it with a human-AI interaction? That would not be an achievement.

                I don't hate the idea of creating some AI "players" who play against humans in order to gauge the AI's trueskill rating but that could be done without changing the 1v1 ladder. You could set up a completely separate ladder where people often get matched to AIs and different AIs compete with humans and with each other for rating points to see which is the best AI. But leave the real ladder alone.

                Look at how butthurt people were over the TMM rating reset. Putting AIs into the real ladder could cause problems 100x worse than that. There's so little upside compared to the amount of damage that could happen.

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                • epic-bennisE Offline
                  epic-bennis Banned
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                  Ah come on arma it's a little science experiments, every bot plays 50 games, gets a rating, everybody gets sick of it and it's over. Sounds fun
                  Hahaha

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                  • FemtoZettaF Offline
                    FemtoZetta
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                    It's a valid point that people would whine too much about it because they are extremely sensitive about ladder... So as a lot of the time in FAF, it's an idea that's dead on arrival or could only be tested with significant effort in getting people to play rated AI games (and even getting some AI games to be rated). RIP

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                    • biassB Offline
                      biass
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                      We could also call the rating reset a “little science experiment” but the consequences of that were more than just a revert. People stopped playing...

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                      • J Offline
                        JazzFunkNoob
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                        I mean AI in ladder would have a far smaller impact on ladder than a rating reset. As a low rated ladder spammer you would have smth like a 1/20 chance of getting an ai as opponent if we tune it properly. But mb we should get some input from those ranks if they would mind. time to pm coca 🙂

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                          FtXCommando
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                          To think bisq was right all along biass, FAF truly is a bot scam.

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                            Azraaa
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                            yikes....

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