Pretty much with you on this.

I'm not actually doing any of the coding on the AI, but from what I've been able to glean, the AI is still in its infancy. The AI that comes with the program (Sebrian's, if I recall) has a few cards that it's individually scripted to know when/how to use, but it will also activate everything it can. That last part is what leads to a lot of the stupid plays. (If you're wondering why it's there, it's basically a workaround to make sure the AI doesn't skip mandatory effects, and that it won't just sit there and do nothing.)

It will sit there and do nothing if you code it to be that way, you understood nothing of AI's code, sorry.

I wish Al mode more competitive, it takes a lot of stupid decisions such as playing a blue-eyes withe dragon in defense mode when i had a weaker monster or spend all the cards you have on the hand without doing nothing right. Apart from that many congratulations for the work done.

Pretty much with you on this.

I'm not actually doing any of the coding on the AI, but from what I've been able to glean, the AI is still in its infancy. The AI that comes with the program (Sebrian's, if I recall) has a few cards that it's individually scripted to know when/how to use, but it will also activate everything it can. That last part is what leads to a lot of the stupid plays. (If you're wondering why it's there, it's basically a workaround to make sure the AI doesn't skip mandatory effects, and that it won't just sit there and do nothing.)

Yugioh is a very complex game, and the tools we have at our disposal to make the AI work are somewhat limited. Unfortunately it is almost impossible for us to code even very simple generic rules (like "use all kinds of destruction effects only on cards you can actually destroy"). So we are basically forced to code most cards that can be misused individually.

This is why we currently focus on making specific decks for the AI and allowing it to handle these decks somewhat nicely. It is impossible for us to make it use every single card, but by limiting it to specific decks, we can improve its performance by a lot.

Of course, it won't be perfect still, as it is impossible to account for every possible interaction with other cards as well, Yugioh is just too complex for that. But I like to think, that the AI can pilot the decks we made for it somewhat decently. Feel free to try out my most recent addition, an AI for a FireFist deck, you can find it in this post .

So Snarky when we will get Heraldic Beast script what do you think,and what deck next are planing to do.I know its not easy to script but i jost have to asc since HB are my favorite type.

I really admire how the developers and programmers here share their time to debug the scripts. And I also want to quote that scripting and authoring are extremely hard. Even when playing against Konami AI's like Tagforce on PSP, some of the AI's decisions are quite predictable so we cannot blame them because it requires trial-and-error.

I myself want to improve the game and only if I have the skill to do scripts, I can do this during my free time but my knowledge here is almost very natal (unfortunately I can do more on the creative side). I'm a multimedia artist and I wish I can share something to help the game. Like creating the animation for Fusion, Ritual, Syncho, Xyz Summon, or Final Countdown effect, Activating effects or Exodia Animation and the likes. I can provide them if I'll be instructed well what the game needs and how am I suppose to export the effects (like file extensions).

I'm willing to cooperate with the developers on a scheduled basis.

I really admire how the developers and programmers here share their time to debug the scripts. And I also want to quote that scripting and authoring are extremely hard. Even when playing against Konami AI's like Tagforce on PSP, some of the AI's decisions are quite predictable so we cannot blame them because it requires trial-and-error.

I myself want to improve the game and only if I have the skill to do scripts, I can do this during my free time but my knowledge here is almost very natal (unfortunately I can do more on the creative side). I'm a multimedia artist and I wish I can share something to help the game. Like creating the animation for Fusion, Ritual, Syncho, Xyz Summon, or Final Countdown effect, Activating effects or Exodia Animation and the likes. I can provide them if I'll be instructed well what the game needs and how am I suppose to export the effects (like file extensions).

I'm willing to cooperate with the developers on a scheduled basis.

Pretty much with you on this.

I'm not actually doing any of the coding on the AI, but from what I've been able to glean, the AI is still in its infancy. The AI that comes with the program (Sebrian's, if I recall) has a few cards that it's individually scripted to know when/how to use, but it will also activate everything it can. That last part is what leads to a lot of the stupid plays. (If you're wondering why it's there, it's basically a workaround to make sure the AI doesn't skip mandatory effects, and that it won't just sit there and do nothing.)

Yugioh is a very complex game, and the tools we have at our disposal to make the AI work are somewhat limited. Unfortunately it is almost impossible for us to code even very simple generic rules (like "use all kinds of destruction effects only on cards you can actually destroy"). So we are basically forced to code most cards that can be misused individually.

This is why we currently focus on making specific decks for the AI and allowing it to handle these decks somewhat nicely. It is impossible for us to make it use every single card, but by limiting it to specific decks, we can improve its performance by a lot.

Of course, it won't be perfect still, as it is impossible to account for every possible interaction with other cards as well, Yugioh is just too complex for that. But I like to think, that the AI can pilot the decks we made for it somewhat decently. Feel free to try out my most recent addition, an AI for a FireFist deck, you can find it in this post .

How about we just use the Code already on Github and have the AI access each script independently and then from there determine the best actions for each card. That would cut down on a lot of issues that the AI faces. Like Marshmallon it would receive the effect from Git and then it would place it facedown in def mode for example. Instead of playing it in face up attack mode causing it to lose the duel.

I took a custom cards for a test, the AL Special Summons a Powerful monsters, then it destroys it by itself, i don't know, the CPU wasn't well programed.

There are several people working on, or assisting with AI coding. Sebrian did the main bulk so far, but is currently not continuing his work, he might come back at some point. Skaviory and me provided some additional code and magic has his own AI version in this thread .

We are slowly adding more and more cards, we might never be able to add every single card, but we try to add commonly played ones and add specific decks the AI can play somewhat decently. Currently, I am working on a Heraldic Beast deck and improving my Firefist AI (which might have been included in the latest update? Not sure).