Dibny
  • Dibny
  • Newbie Topic Starter
2015-09-30T19:13:20Z
Hello,

For my AI games in YGOPro i'm enjoying it the most when the AI and myself have decks of roughly equal strenghts so we have each a chance to win and a chance to lose.

As i am not very familiar with the yu gi oh thousand amount of cards (i'm more used to the MtG sets that i play with Forge) , i have difficulty to build decks that are +/- equals while differently themed for now (as i could just have both the AI and me playing the same deck, but it's more fun with variety i think).

So i am looking into the official decks as i see there are many preconstructed ones :
http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Starter_Deck 
http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Structure_Deck 

But again, not being experienced enough in the cards in those decks, from what i see a started deck is obviously weaker than a structure one, so i would only play either starter vs starter or structure vs structure.

And i'm wondering, by example if i download a few of the many official structure decks and gives one to the AI and one to me, am i going to have the type of game i hope, i mean relatively balanced, or are there still going to be some extremely strong official structure deck and very weak official structure decks ?

Anyone experimented with those decks when playing with the AI ?
Thanks for any hints
KaizaUrai
2015-10-02T12:25:41Z
Originally Posted by: Dibny 

Hello,

For my AI games in YGOPro i'm enjoying it the most when the AI and myself have decks of roughly equal strenghts so we have each a chance to win and a chance to lose.

As i am not very familiar with the yu gi oh thousand amount of cards (i'm more used to the MtG sets that i play with Forge) , i have difficulty to build decks that are +/- equals while differently themed for now (as i could just have both the AI and me playing the same deck, but it's more fun with variety i think).

So i am looking into the official decks as i see there are many preconstructed ones :
http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Starter_Deck 
http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Structure_Deck 

But again, not being experienced enough in the cards in those decks, from what i see a started deck is obviously weaker than a structure one, so i would only play either starter vs starter or structure vs structure.

And i'm wondering, by example if i download a few of the many official structure decks and gives one to the AI and one to me, am i going to have the type of game i hope, i mean relatively balanced, or are there still going to be some extremely strong official structure deck and very weak official structure decks ?

Anyone experimented with those decks when playing with the AI ?
Thanks for any hints



The AI works very differently with the AI-intended decks than normal ones. The standard procedure for everyday decks I believe is that the AI will just use everything it is capable of using regardless of sensibility, leading to some potentially crushing or potentially laughable plays, so there isn't really much of a way of predicting how the AI will use a deck unless it is a a really easy to use deck for people that doesn't rely on doing things in the right order.

By the way my Deck Emporium has all of the official decks released to date on it, under "Official Decks"
You can reach the Emporium through the link in my sig.

Snarky
2015-10-02T12:45:18Z
As KaizaUrai already stated, I wouldn't recommend giving the AI any other decks besides the AI decks, that come with the program, unless they are very linear and don't have cards the AI can mess up. It will activate everything in random order, search random cards without any kind of concept and it will target random cards with its effects, usually destroying its own cards in the process or buffing yours for no reason.

The supported AI decks do vary in strength a lot as well, though, decks like the Yugi or Kaiba character decks are very weak, other decks like Fire Fists or Heraldic Beast are moderately strong and can pose a challenge at times. And then there are the more recent archetypes like Nekroz and the new Mega Monarchs, which, even though the AI definitely does not play them perfectly, can absolutely crush you, just because the base archetype is so powerful.

If you don't like to play against a certain type of deck, you can always just remove it from the random deck selection, by renaming, deleting or moving the deck file to a different folder. However, keep in mind, many decks can do very powerful and seemingly unfair plays. If you start removing AI decks, just because they crushed you once or twice, you might run out of opponents at some point 🙂
Dibny
  • Dibny
  • Newbie Topic Starter
2015-10-03T22:29:00Z
Thank you for the answers.

That's going to be more of a problem than i thought if the AI can't differentiate between its own monsters and mine when it use its trap/spells and will auto destroy itself as i was just wanting to have a play with decks roughly balanced with each other instead of utterly dominating ones :/

Hopefully those structure/starter decks aren't too advanced in their content so the AI will still be fun to play with.