Amadeus challenge - Feedback & Strategies

[anon4743054]

And yeah, I hope that something can be done for AI hiding, it is slowly killing the competitive aspect of CG.

I forgot who wrote it in a past contest, but they wrote something about an idea they came up with, within the last 2 hours of the contest immediately started coding it and then they got high rank! Actually …

Or let’s say someone finishes their CG brutal tester run or whatever offline training they are doing. Well then what exactly is there to be done about it?

Some people might call it hiding although it was a last minute change that worked well, yet it still has the same impact.

[reCurse]

Let’s try not to resurrect the huge AI hiding thread here please…

[_CG_SaiksyApo]

AI Hiding

Problem: while many noble players advance in the open, some try to hide their strategies during all the contest. I think the latter is just rational (everybody wants to win!), but it has some strong anti-fun and anti-competition effects (I wholeheartedly agree with a related remark that @Agade put in his postmortem). So maybe we could add some rational incentive to release early and keep the best results in the arena? For example, for each player, consider the whole evolution of their ranking …