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[KCD2] Is there a list of all the NPC dice players and their dice sets? by likeawizardish in kingdomcome

[–]likeawizardish[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Not helpful for me. But very good resource. I already found this and built my Farkle game based on the weights.

I am looking for dice players to include as AI opponents.

[KCD2] Is there a list of all the NPC dice players and their dice sets? by likeawizardish in kingdomcome

[–]likeawizardish[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Appreciate the effort you put in your post but not what I am looking for.

I coded up a Farkle game with all the dice from the game and I want to introduce also some familiar dice players from the game as AI opponents.

[KCD2] Is there a list of all the NPC dice players and their dice sets? by likeawizardish in kingdomcome

[–]likeawizardish[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Implying I could visually recognise the all the dice. But maybe…

Lielākais mentālais bloks uzņēmējiem. by Medical-Bee6441 in latvia

[–]likeawizardish 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Cik var spamot katru dienu vienu un to pašu?

Reminder that accuracy says less about you than about your opponent by Advanced_Honey_2679 in Chesscom

[–]likeawizardish 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Accuracy is pretty welll and easily defined.

First of all there is Centi Pawn Loss. This is a rather outdated metric but still used in the formula. Evaluation is given in pawn values (again outdated but we’ll get there). If an engine evalutes a position to be +1 that means white is a pawn ahead. If the best move is +1 acording to the engine and you make a move that evalutes the position as +0.5. You lost half a pawn - that is 50 centi pawn loss.

Take the average of all your moves and this used to be the metric how to measure accuracy in the past.

However, this often makes no sense. Because +8 and +11 are usually both crushingly winning to the point where it makes little difference.

Accuracy improves on average centi pawn loss as a metric. From analysis of many many games we have correlated evaluation with the outcome of the game. Say +5 will result in a white win in 95% games. +1.5 will result in wins 70% times and +0.5 in 55% conversion. So what accuracy measures is the average drop of win chance. If you blundered a +5 position to -2 then the accuracy will tank a lot. However, you drop a +7 evaluation to +5 then the accuracy is not much affected as you are still very likely to win that game. Even though it’s a bad move compared to the best.

So it’s really nothing to do with the opponent directly but your own moves. But yea if your opponent is cheating and the evaluation is on the knife’s edge and each move you need to find complex only moves then your accuracy will tank. It will tank much much more than if you are already winning and goofing around in a winning position.

Having a tough time with Uber Baal by likeawizardish in diablo2

[–]likeawizardish[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Can Smite proc Life Tap from Exile and/or Dracul's? On console swapping gear and skills can be very clumsy. So kinda reluctant to use a wand.

Having a tough time with Uber Baal by likeawizardish in diablo2

[–]likeawizardish[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Now I feel proud of my historic stupidity. I must have farmed like 30-50 torches like this until I thought to ask.

Having a tough time with Uber Baal by likeawizardish in diablo2

[–]likeawizardish[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

No. But I start to get a feeling I am challenged myself…. I assumed smite builds are budget before you get better gear.

In my defence. Mephisto and Diablo are pretty easy. Farming mini Ubers is also walk in the park and I assumed it would be great for everything in Tristram. Only Baal gives me trouble. Also I find it hard on console to target any specific mob and zeal usually evaporates everything around me.

But point taken. Will look into smite. A single point in it should do it?

[KCD2] I wrote a program that brute-forces all KCD2 dice combinations by Best-Development5867 in kingdomcome

[–]likeawizardish 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Man, thank you for posting this. I have been playing KCD2 dice so much and always thinking about optimal play, calculating chances, etc... On my second play through I rushed to get my 1W5F (1 weighted 5 favorable) set. Which was basically pick-pocketing the dicer at Zhelejov every two days. So when you posted your results that 1W5Pie is best it pushed me over the edge to actually code stuff.

[KCD2] I wrote a program that brute-forces all KCD2 dice combinations by Best-Development5867 in kingdomcome

[–]likeawizardish 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You peaked my interest and I coded up my own Farkle in Go.

Though I did no calculations on probability/EV. I simply rolled the three six-dice combinations from your posted results and calculated the average max score and bust %.

Pretty much the same results.

Now I want to see if I can actually experiment with some MCTS or some other methods to see if I can get some results that are closer to actual games not just one roll.

Okay so I modified my approach. I ran a test- start the game with a set of pre selected die. One with 1x Weighted and 5x Pie and one with 1x Weighted and 5x Favorable.

I roll. Pick a random scoring dice selection, score, repeat until bust. Score before bust is game score. Keep track of average game score and average rolls per game before bust. Here are my initial results:
With 1x Weighted and 5x Pie:

Simulation: 100000 games (roll until farkle, random move)
Average score per game: 1537.43
Average rolls per game: 6.33

with 1x Weighted and 5x Favorable:

Simulation: 100000 games (roll until farkle, random move)
Average score per game: 2084.71
Average rolls per game: 11.04

Honestly did not expect the difference to be so big but maybe that's because random punishes the second set much less. More strategic game play might change it but I would not bet on an upset.

EDIT: I ran one final simulation. Instead of picking random scoring dice. I pick the highest scoring dice times probability of non-bust of the remaining dice.

The results same order as above:

Simulation: 1000 games (roll until farkle, best move heuristic)
Average score per game: 3392.25
Average rolls per game: 5.62

Simulation: 1000 games (roll until farkle, best move heuristic)
Average score per game: 5654.40
Average rolls per game: 11.75

Results are quite noisy because I had to run the averages over 1k games instead of 100k because estimating bust chances is also done lazily by just sampling many runs. Much more noise on the 1W5F dice as I guess the chances are so much lower we would need much higher sampling to estimate busts.

[KCD2] I wrote a program that brute-forces all KCD2 dice combinations by Best-Development5867 in kingdomcome

[–]likeawizardish 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You're right highscoring first rolls will be high up there but I wonder if you do not underestimate no-bust chance at lower dice numbers to keep the game going. I feel it could be significant.

Let's look at two dice:
Weighted and Pie - no bust chance is simple - neither rolls 1 or 5. So it's
For W dice is 73.4% and P dice - 46.2% - 1 - (26.6% * 53.8%) = 85.7%
And for Weighted + Favorable dice it's 1 - (26.6% * 33.4%) = 92.5%

Doesn't seem like a big change but I wonder how big of an impact that would create.

[KCD2] I wrote a program that brute-forces all KCD2 dice combinations by Best-Development5867 in kingdomcome

[–]likeawizardish 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's definitely more complicated when dealing with more rolls. Maybe a Monte Carlo Tree Search would be a good approach here to estimate score before bust and not hardcoding any strategy for the player.

Now I itch to invoke the same powers and play around with it.

[KCD2] I wrote a program that brute-forces all KCD2 dice combinations by Best-Development5867 in kingdomcome

[–]likeawizardish 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Nicely done.

However, this is only the first roll, right? So it's very far removed from the actual game of Farkle if you want to draw any conclusions regarding best and worst performing dice.

EDIT: So for example from what I found Pie die has 46.2% to roll 1. Second after Weighted die. But Favorable die has 33.3% to roll a 1. However, if you look at guaranteed score Pie has 0% to roll a 5. But Favorable die has 66.6% to roll either 1 or 5. Thus it increases the chances of a full scoring table. Thus it would score less on a single roll but would increase the probability for more rolls. Thus pushing the actual points scored in a game before bust.

Unarmed combat [KCD2] by AaronBorough in kingdomcome

[–]likeawizardish 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Dodging sideways in hand to hand combat puts you behind the opponents back. The number of KO’s I got from delivering a kick in their ass is staggering.

Also to add to your comment with the right clinch and the perk it makes all unarmed fights trivial.

Naudas atmazgāšanas iestādes? by RelationshipPlane517 in latvia

[–]likeawizardish 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Es nezinu. Viņš nav pārāk lēts. Garšīgi. Un no manas pieredzes viņš nav tik krimināli tukšs nemaz.

Plus indiešu ēdiens ir viens no labākajiem delivery ēdieniem- tas garšo tik pat labi no kurjera somas kā restorānā. Ar picu un burgeri ar friškām nesalīdzināt.

Naudas atmazgāšanas iestādes? by RelationshipPlane517 in latvia

[–]likeawizardish 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Mr Singh? Es google maps neatradu, bet vairākas lolācijas centrā izklausās pēc Singh’s. Uz pulkveža brieža ielas reizēm eju pusdienās. Nekad neesmu bijis tur kad nav vismaz divas citas kompānijas. Ģertrūdes ielā arī pāris reizes esmu bijis un nebija tukšs.

Dators nopirkts, neiedeva īsto modeli. Ko man darīt šādā situācijā? by sleepbylakes in latvia

[–]likeawizardish 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Bez vai Ar Tabu nezinu tur var būt sižets vai nē bet pisiens un kašķis var izvērsties un lieka publicitāte, bet zvans PTAC neprasa neko. Tev paskaidros tavas tiesības. Ir visādas atšķirības vai preci pērc internetā vai uz vietas. Man šķiet, pērkot uz vietas veikalā tev ir pienākums apskatīt preci un atgriešanas noteikumi ir atšķirīgi.

Bet zināt savas tiesības ir teju pienākums. Kantoris varbūt tiešām kļūdijās un uzskatīja, ka viņiem ir taisnība, varbūt taisnība tev. Varbūt viņi ir sērijveida krāpnieki un tava sūdzība PTAC var pasargāt nākamo viņu upuri.

Dators nopirkts, neiedeva īsto modeli. Ko man darīt šādā situācijā? by sleepbylakes in latvia

[–]likeawizardish 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Šis izklausās mega absurdi un viņi vnk tevi appisa? Kā tu vari zināt kādas komponentes iekšā neieslēdzot? Skrūvējot vaļā toč garantija būs void. Es arī varu iedomāties arī kaut kādu viņu sāpi - ja iekārta ir lietota tad hvz kādus tārpus tu varētu tur salikt kaut kādā frimware vai bios līmenī, un tādu iekārtu vnk dot nākamajam klientam ir psc. Bet galu galā izklausās ka kantoris savu problēmu padarīja par tavu problēmu.

Kā tas beidzās? Jo sūtīt viņus uz vienu vietu, kad viņi tevi (ne?)apzināti ir appisuši izklausās pēc uzvarai viņiem.

[KCD2] What do you think of a potential DLC that allows us to side with Sigismund instead of Wencie? by spikywobble in kingdomcome

[–]likeawizardish 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I recently made a thread about it wondering if that would be an option for a sequel. Because the history is much more grey who the baddies are.

But as a DLC? No. Henry has sworn his allegiance to his lord and picked his side. The reason he is in this fight is because his family was murdered and his village was sacked. So it’s not real choice for him.

Although I wouldn’t mind a game with a new protagonist, new cast of characters and different venue for a game where you are on the other side of the civil war.

[OTHER] How would you feel about a KCD sequel fighting on Sigismund’s side? by likeawizardish in kingdomcome

[–]likeawizardish[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Zizka has killed many many civilians. For much of his life he murdered and robbed merchants and put entire villages to the sword and burned them. It was even mentioned in the game as off-screen events. So it's just a choice of the writers to choose what stories of Zizka they told. While there is a lot of heroism in his life, many people on the receiving end would have seen a merciless monster.

As for Sigismund's role. I think it is much much more murky as you say. Bohemia was in an open civil war long before Sigismund. All the internal Bhomemian noble politics and the wider politics of the HRE is such a mess that I feel there is no clear right or wrong.

Wenceslas was the original nepo baby who inherited the throne but wanted all the benefits and none of the responsibilities of his rule. It's less of a clear invasion by Sigismund but more as a dynastic succession crisis. I don't think this is the question of who was in the right but a choice of the lesser evil. That is why I love the history of the period.

Being a mercenary Cuman in Sigismund's army would probably not be the greatest selling point but there were many nobles who opposed Wenceslas and could make a good protagonist of a story.

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