Draft bots need a higher IQ!

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Posted on Nov. 4, 2010, 10:30 a.m. by crossclimber

Hey I love practicing draft on this site and I think you have a decent system for it except the bots are not in any way good at picking cards. In my last draft I got passed an arc trail on P2P13, Then in the 3rd pack Hoardsmelter Dragon P3P6, Embersmith p3p10, galvanic blast p3p12, and embersmith p3p13! I went from B/G metalcraft to B/R splash green and my deck went from mediocre to bomby in my last 5 cards. This means that the drafts done with bots are not realistic and not helpful but actually detrimental to players trying to get some practice in (at least for competitive players, beginners could benefit from learning to pick colors and such). Is there a way to have the bots base their picks on the average pick order shown below cards, while still aiming at 2 colors and artifacts? I don't expect a bot to draft an architype or to be able to read signals and switch colors well but it should be possible to eliminate wheeling bombs which should never happen.

Zylo says... #2

A possibility could be different "difficulties" of the bots. If someone who is used to drafting with really good people wants that feel that could use "hard" bots, but say someone who just wants to not be so stressed when drafting could use "easy" bots.

November 7, 2010 11:53 a.m.