Package: xmille Version: 2.0-13 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer,
I just finished a set of 5 games against the computer. The results were a little worse than usual but not by much. I lost all 5 games, and in 10 hands in those 5 games I scored no points at all. This was no fault of my own, for I cannot score if I am not dealt cards with which it is possible to score. In those 10 games I averaged a little less than two Go cards per game, and I was not dealt the first one in each game until more than half way through the deck. At the same time I was dealt either 0 or 1 hazard card per game for which the computer had an immediate solution--coup fourre or a remedy card and then a Go. Thus, the computer had all the odds on its side. I have played Mille Bornes for at least 30 years and I do not recall ever seeing such poor odds in a two-handed game on a regular basis. If one player gets a hot streak of cards the worm will turn a few games later in the other player's favor. That never happens in this computerized version. The computer wins 75-80% of the time and it's due to the computer getting the winning cards and the human rarely getting the winning cards. This is not a complaint that comes from playing a few games against the computer, or from not being a skilled Mille Bornes player. I am a skilled Mille Bornes player who wins on a consistent basis against human players. I have played a few hundred games against the computer and the odds on being dealt winning cards do not even out. As a result there is no way to hold your own against the computer. How about evening out the odds between computer and human? -- System Information: Debian Release: buster/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.13.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages xmille depends on: ii libc6 2.25-3 ii libx11-6 2:1.6.4-3 ii libxext6 2:1.3.3-1+b2 xmille recommends no packages. xmille suggests no packages. -- no debconf information
