Hi Thomas,
Thank you for your suggestions, but as I said and you suggested, I think that
you would be better off writing your own Monopoly game since you have a better
head for business and writing artificial intelligence.
BFN
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Hi Jim,
Your Monopoly game has promise, but I think a few small corrections in
the way the computer does business would go a long way to improving the
game play.
For example, when I play and I start getting low on cash I stop buying
property and houses until I build up a bit of a reserve. That way I
don't go to much in to debt by morgadging all my properties.
However, the computer AI player will land on an expensive property, have
limitted funds, and instead of trying to buy it later buys right then,
and morgadges several properties to obtain the property. That is a very
risky move, and can be a suicidal act in the end if the computer player
doesn't know how to recover from that kind of move properly. Which it
usually doesn't, and continues to lose money rather than continue
picking up income.
Here is a clear example of a mistake the computer player makes. It
usually tries to unmorgadge the most expensive properties, and start
building there first. Good if you have the funds to do it, but bad if
you have limited funds.
Well, in my last game the computer player had all the green properties,
red, and light blue. All of them were morgadged and the computer just
went around go. It unmorgadged a green property. However, a more
financially sound investment might have been to unmorgadge the light
blue, and then build a few houses on it in time so that there would be
some income coming in besides the $14, and so on from the empty properties.
The income from the light blue properties could have been used to pull
say the red out of debt, and once started building on that the player
could have started in too the green.
What I am saying in monopoly as in real life building a monopoly takes
starting from the least expensive investments and as you increase
investments, build upwards until u reach the final goal.
Jim
I will always cherish the initial misconceptions I had about you.
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