@johnnycat you raise good questions:

Is the answer time and programmers? Or just programmers or just time?
Or management ?
Does it come down to Money? If the answers are: yes, no, maybe, and only on weekends, how could I and others help?

Time and programmers is the biggest need. Every bug fix and issue probably takes 2 to 16 hours to fix. This is the biggest gap. Further, TripleA is a larger code base that is very brittle. Making that codebase be easier to work with would help.

Money is useful for keeping the servers running and paying the monthly bills. As much as I would love to be payed for TripleA work, paying any type of reasonable developer wage becomes way too much very quickly.

Additional management would be helpful. Getting issues sorted, cleanly stated, boiled down to a bare minimum would all be helpful.

@samurai-jd

I have not seen substantive changes in AI play whether the Fast AI or the Hard AI is employed.

Shame 😞

All 4 Lend-Lease-Depots are active from turn 1. The USA gives 20pu per turn to USSR whilst Vladivostok is USSR, this is automatic.

Other changes you could make are (line 6764)
<option name="placement" value="Archangelsk:Armor-Med"/>
remove 8pu, change it 9pu

and (line 6790)
<option name="placement" value="Baku-Azerbaijan:Armor-Med"/>

ALthough the 2 Armour-Med is minor it forces resources nearer the west and not the east.

@ubernaut I just read that it got shut down... but that's ok

On the roadmap is to change how TripleA represents the state of the game to be a plain text file instead of a binary encoding. Once that is done, it'll be a lot easier to interoperate different TripleA game clients (ie: a mobile version that interoperates with a desktop version).

The level of effort to reach that goal is pretty high though. It's been an uphill battle to tackle our current goals... I do agree it would be pretty sweet to be able to play a turn of TripleA during coffee breaks.

@wc_sumpton

Yeah, the 2.7 version has a lot of visual issues.

I just opened the 2.5 version, it's great.

@sgrom8504

Right Arm 💪

Let us know if you need help

@mshanaplayerson

Sweet ! Let us know if you need any help 🙂

@kindwind It would seem that training against random games would be every inefficient compared to training against the AI that TripleA comes with.TripleA is not Go, random play should be very bad.

@kindwind If you want to try a neural net AI for TripleA, you would need to modify TripleA to support repeated self-play. For example of programs that support repeated self-play checkout Ludii & Chess Arena.

Supporting repeated self-play would be project of moderate difficulty in Java. (TripleA already supports self-play). You would need to learn Java (Vibe coding doesn't cut it).. Repeated self-play would also be useful for balancing mods.

I don't know how well a neural net would play TripleA. The number of possible moves in Go is a most 361, far fewer than the number of possible moves in a TripleA game. An effort to get a neural net to play a 2-player Risk variant did not go well.

One advantage is that TripleA already has heuristic AI's that could be used to train a neural net.

@samurai-jd said in A more challenging AI:

Re: 💥 1941 Global Command Decision - Official Thread

First, for a guy who has played TripleA in the earliest of days and before that all the published versions of the Axis and Allies board games since the 1980s, the GCD map and rules is a true masterpiece. Thank you.

I play solo. Can anything be done to improve the skill of the AI? I have tried both Fast and Hard modes. No matter how I favor the AI (through multiple iterations as either Axis or Allies) the AI is finished by the 7th round. In my most current effort, I start with 2700 units for the Axis and 2400 units for the Allies. Especially when the AI plays as the Allies, I can NEVER get the USA to invade Continental Europe no matter how favorable I set the situation.

I appreciate your time and the incredible game that you have so elegantly created.

Samurai JD

A large, complex mod such as 1941 Global Command decision is difficult for the AI to play properly. More units just makes it worse.

You would need either to change to mod to help the AI or give the US units near Europe each turn using the editor

@beelee cool o7

Currently the latest pre-release onwards causes errors like
2.7.15230: ResourceCollection#removeResource:54
The devs are working their way through solving some of the outstanding issues.

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I suggest players use this version
https://github.com/triplea-game/triplea/releases/tag/2.7.15025
As center on Capital works

@thedog You may want to check my wiki for modern scenarios at https://axisandallies.fandom.com/wiki/Category:Timeline?from=2001

There are a number of mods and maps they may give you some ideas.

@rogercooper
Thanks!

@admtamer Units can produce or cost PU's, which allows you to implement these features in a mod.

@ondis Still looking if anyone is interested I check the thread every week. Could be interested in Total War too

@thedog Apologies, I have limited time for gaming and such at the moment. Visiting family. Thanks for the info, I'll take a look in the new year, or earlier if I get the chance.

@trout

right arm. I figured we'd play the round out but since you don't get to go again I'll probably just capitulate.

New one will be more fun at this point. I wasn't sure if you had bloodlust going on and wanted to kill a buncha more dudes or not 🙂

Yea, I think Ghengis was an alien lol I mean over 70% of Mongols have his dna 😆

Edit
Right on Congratulations on a good win. No point in continuing this one anymore.

Stalin did have to be forcibly restrained but they gave him a bottle of vodka and said it was only a armistice and that he could just keep killing his own people.