jcion's comments

Interesting! What are the next environments/strategy games you have planned?

What insights do you think they’ll provide that Civ doesn’t?

It’s interesting seeing the gameplay logic broken down like this. From playing civ for many years my (human) early game strategy feels effortless. Cool to see the stark contrast with an agent going through the rigorous analysis:

Turn 29: I have 3 cities but TWO are undefended (Antium and Westhold) - critical risk. I have 17 warriors, many with 0 moves already used this turn. I need to garrison the undefended cities immediately. Unit #125 is at (6,57) with moves and goto - it's near Westhold (7,57), move it there. For Antium (13,59), I need to find a warrior with moves near it. Looking at warriors with moves: #125 at (6,57), #120, #122, #124, #132, #133, #136, #144, #145, #146 - need to check which have moves remaining. Units #128, #137, #141, #127 have 0 moves. Let me move #125 to Westhold and find someone for Antium. I'll also fortify units that are in cities, move explorers, and set worker #107 to work. Need to research tech too. With 17 warriors I should be exploring aggressively and preparing for expansion. I'll move warriors toward undefended cities and fortify defenders.

It's tough when the "only sane solution" also happens to be a enormous task to even begin talking about. I agree with you, but I also struggling to imagine a time when that overhaul could take place.