Rating decay

We have just updated the test server with rating decay. The rating decay will trigger once a week (probably on Sundays). The purpose is to keep active players on the ranking list.

New Hard AI decks

We’ve also added 8 new decks to the hard AI, 2 for each resource type. A while ago I ask Blinky (@Blinky00849) if he could send me a list of top mono decks using new scrolls to be used by the AI. I was expecting one per resource type, but only a couple of hours later I got an email with 10 decks! Thanks a lot.

I’ve tried to measure how well the AI could use Blinkys decks and kept the ones that looked promising. The AI is not very good with Solemn Giant and Automata Forge so instead I let the AI build it’s own energy decks. Also one of the new order decks is composed by the AI itself.

The process of automatically building decks is pretty simple, harvesting the speed of computers:

1) Start with a deck, play hundreds of games (against all four resources) use the score as a basescore.

2) Replace some of the scrolls with other scrolls.

3) Play again. Is the score > baseline? Keep the new scrolls and update the basescore, else keep the old ones.

4) Repeat 2-4

I usually let this run about 24h.

Anyways, this will hopefully add some more variations for all who play SP quick matches. May add more decks for Easy and Medium too.

Those changes are available on the test server now!

@jonkagstrom