Running computer against itself
Posted: Mon Sep 04, 2000 2:52 pm
Hello, and thanks for making WiR (and Pac) better!
I ran the game to conclusion 4 times, computer playing itself, and some oddities were discovered.
1) All times the game ended in a draw in July 45. Russians were in Germany, but the western and Italian fronts were mostly intact. Once the western front captured Paris, once the Allied invaded Sicily. In other games, they performed worse. But they need tweaking anyway, which you already know.
2) Soviet oil production was wacky. In July 45, they had about a dozen cities producing 55+ oil, including Leningrad and Moscow, which is a bit suspect since this didn't happen in the original.
3) This one was present in the original too: Computer has the ability remove air groups from the map, and is reluctant to bring them back. This results (for the Russians) in computer having thousands of aircraft in the pool and maybe half of the air groups being unused. If you take control and start moving airgroups from RVGK and OKW/H (which have 10), they refill with those hidden groups which can again be put to use. If you switch back to computer control, most of these are again removed from the map.
4) When you do an airlift mission, the cv of the corpse is not updated unless/until you transfer some unit somewhere, when all cvs are updated with current values.
I ran the game to conclusion 4 times, computer playing itself, and some oddities were discovered.
1) All times the game ended in a draw in July 45. Russians were in Germany, but the western and Italian fronts were mostly intact. Once the western front captured Paris, once the Allied invaded Sicily. In other games, they performed worse. But they need tweaking anyway, which you already know.
2) Soviet oil production was wacky. In July 45, they had about a dozen cities producing 55+ oil, including Leningrad and Moscow, which is a bit suspect since this didn't happen in the original.
3) This one was present in the original too: Computer has the ability remove air groups from the map, and is reluctant to bring them back. This results (for the Russians) in computer having thousands of aircraft in the pool and maybe half of the air groups being unused. If you take control and start moving airgroups from RVGK and OKW/H (which have 10), they refill with those hidden groups which can again be put to use. If you switch back to computer control, most of these are again removed from the map.
4) When you do an airlift mission, the cv of the corpse is not updated unless/until you transfer some unit somewhere, when all cvs are updated with current values.