by murrur
The AI concept is very nice: simple and competitive. Although I found it too hard. AI gains easily 7 points a turn, so the game is over in only few turns. If the AI is in Tokyo and rolls two 3s and two 2's, that makes 6-7 pts.Maybe it might last longer if you only take the higher double, or if you minus 1 or 2 points from dice score (but giving at least 1 per double). Eg with 3,3,3,2,2 that'd make 3+1+2-2=4, which is closer to actual game gains. Or 1,1,2,2 would give 1+2-2=1, but min. 1 per set, ie 2 pts.
I played 3 games and won only one, and that too due to unbelievable luck with dice. I got five 3's, entered Tokyo and had card that gave me 1 for attacking. So I got 5+1+1=7, thus running in front of Ai at 19.
I'm going to try the minusing or higher double only later, if I have energy.
BTW, one way to determine which card Ai gets is to roll dice and pick number with highest appearance in results. In a tie, roll all non-numerical and non tied dice until one number exceeds others in amount. Or... I guess you could roll just one die LOL.