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Hi iceiceice, No, I didn't try something simple like L2 vector distances, I would expect slightly better results using that, too. The nice thing about NCD is that you can run it on *anything* and get some kind of clustering out, so I had the right tools for it lying around as "let's quickly NCD...

Hi mattsc, I had such fun playing the default AI as a beginner, gradually learning how to explot its weaknesses until I could finally triumph! I hope to build up a set of entirely different AIs with their own unique set of crippling flaws to complement it, rather than to create the master AI that pr...

I've had a lot of sucess clustering the debug logs of the runs and using this to track down bugs, unintended and suboptimal behaviour in a lua AI I'm writing at the moment: http://yieldthought.com/post/95722882055/machine-learning-teaches-me-how-to-write-better-ai If anyone is interesting in experim...

Are patches still preferred in this format, or should we be submitting pull requests via GitHub now?

Thanks mattsc, that's exactly what I was looking for! If nobody minds I'll document some of those on a "testing AIs" wiki page soon. Also: I had wondered why initial gold was 0; thanks for taking the time to mention the bug and fixed version. Writing Wesnoth AIs was the beginning of my lov...

After a long break I'm coming back to Wesnoth to try my hand at making some interesting AIs with the new API. One of the things I want to do time and time again is run a scenario from the command-line with e.g. fog of war and scrolling disabled. I've read the --help and the manpage and tried searchi...