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by HolyHaddock 3703 days ago
I've wondered about building an AI tournament for Avalon before, as my feel from playing and discussing it is that success in the game is strictly dominated by social strategy.

It would be interesting to test out different bot strategies - I'll take a look later. :)

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That's exactly why i built this. The groups I've played resistance with all build up their own rituals or micro optimizations and I'm not sure whether they're effective or not. For instance, I know certain players who will always vote against the first proposed mission team, in order to force more selection and discussion. Do they win more as resistance? If so, does it hurt their spy win percentage?

I intended to let the bots chatter in certain rigid ways, such as making accusations, but life has kept me busy or working on other side-projects, so it's a little unfinished.