Re:Show HN: Influence, a Go-inspired 1-minute board game
by OiNG on Tuesday June 15, 2021 @09:41PM
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go player here.
on first play throughs (on easy then medium AI), i thought that a lot of concepts transferred over and that i just had to consider that influence increases over time even if nothing else is played there later. the game seemed pretty easy.
then i tried hard and got stuck for a few games. i could be wrong about this, but i think the game might be easier as the second player? ive been able to win as blue on hard, but not green yet. i suspect theres something im not understanding about how the influence works, since this seems counter intuitive to me otherwise.
Re:Show HN: Influence, a Go-inspired 1-minute board game
by SamBam on Tuesday June 15, 2021 @09:43PM
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Huh, actually I was wondering if the AI needed to be improved. I haven't lost a game yet (three on easy, then two on hard, all as green) and I'm a pretty poor Go player.
on first play throughs (on easy then medium AI), i thought that a lot of concepts transferred over and that i just had to consider that influence increases over time even if nothing else is played there later. the game seemed pretty easy.
then i tried hard and got stuck for a few games. i could be wrong about this, but i think the game might be easier as the second player? ive been able to win as blue on hard, but not green yet. i suspect theres something im not understanding about how the influence works, since this seems counter intuitive to me otherwise.
in any case, cool game :)