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Civ AI Survivor: Season Five
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The Wildcard Game is finished! We set yet another AI Survivor record today in terms of turnout with 228 concurrent viewers on the Livestream at the highest point. Thank you so much to everyone who was able to join the group today - I hope it was an entertaining game to watch! Here's a batch of links for the next game:
Main Season Five Webpage Sullla Twitch Page Sullla Discord Channel AI Reference Guide from CivFanatics Wildcard Game Livestream Next Game: Playoff Game One Schedule: Scheduled for Friday, 31 July 2020 at Noon EST Playoff Game One Video Preview Playoff Game One Written Preview Playoff Game One Picking Contest Entry Form Congratulations to Delan and Bear as the winners of Game Eight's picking contest with 23 points.  Scoring was pretty high overall with an average score of 10.29 points thanks to some of the community favorites hitting in the leader scoring categories. The ending was, uh, unexpected and worth watching if you can spare the time. We are continuing with our normal Friday date for next week's game. Next week we start with the first playoff game as our returning winners come back for another round of action. Who do you have this week?
So I put together a spreadsheet with the number of times an AI has survived a game, put up against the first/second place finishes, their kills etc. Pretty interesting. Two things that stand out to me immediately are Mao, Darius, and Brennus. Mao for being tied for first in the number of games played... with only 1 first place finish to show for it. He has survived the most games, which makes sense because I feel like I'm constantly seeing this guy pop up in wildcard games. Mao actually leads the pack in surviving games haha. Darius has also somehow played in a bunch of games with not a lot to show for it. And Brennus is the leader in surviving games without finishing first or second - he seriously has 5 games now where he managed to not get killed, but not advance to the next round either.
Not that this needed anymore reinforcement, but this just highlights how absolutely terrible Sitting Bull is. Every other leader, across 5 seasons, has managed to survive a game or kill another AI. SB gets a flat 0 across the board. Here's the google doc if anyone's interested in taking a look. Colored in Gold are the Pool 1 leaders and in Silver are the Pool 2 leaders according to the current (through the wildcard game of S5) Sulla rankings. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1...sp=sharing (July 24th, 2020, 17:44)Borsche Wrote: So I put together a spreadsheet with the number of times an AI has survived a game, put up against the first/second place finishes, their kills etc. Pretty interesting. Two things that stand out to me immediately are Mao, Darius, and Brennus. Mao for being tied for first in the number of games played... with only 1 first place finish to show for it. He has survived the most games, which makes sense because I feel like I'm constantly seeing this guy pop up in wildcard games. Mao actually leads the pack in surviving games haha. Darius has also somehow played in a bunch of games with not a lot to show for it. And Brennus is the leader in surviving games without finishing first or second - he seriously has 5 games now where he managed to not get killed, but not advance to the next round either. For Brennus, as far as I understand your table, he was killed only ONCE (game 1 season 4), but never manage to finish in the top 2 of his second game, when surviving is not enough to advance (being either wildcard or playoff) ! (July 25th, 2020, 07:00)Jabah Wrote:(July 24th, 2020, 17:44)Borsche Wrote: So I put together a spreadsheet with the number of times an AI has survived a game, put up against the first/second place finishes, their kills etc. Pretty interesting. Two things that stand out to me immediately are Mao, Darius, and Brennus. Mao for being tied for first in the number of games played... with only 1 first place finish to show for it. He has survived the most games, which makes sense because I feel like I'm constantly seeing this guy pop up in wildcard games. Mao actually leads the pack in surviving games haha. Darius has also somehow played in a bunch of games with not a lot to show for it. And Brennus is the leader in surviving games without finishing first or second - he seriously has 5 games now where he managed to not get killed, but not advance to the next round either. Close. He has one other death in playoff game 3 season 1 (the one column just points out an opening round death, as opposed to total deaths), but otherwise the guy has survived through every other season while only coming in second place twice (game 1 season 1 and game 6 season 2). Its almost at the point where it's not really a fluke anymore - the man just sort of hangs around in his games.
Well that settles it. We found the true AI Survivor.
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I suspect it's mostly luck, but he does have a few things going for him; a boring personality which can mostly keep up in tech and builds units but doesn't start stupid wars, a low peaceweight to redirect the real psychos away from him, and an otherwise forgettable UB which essentially acts like a mini-protective trait so long as he founds cities on hills.
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