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Kenneth Lee's avatar

As shown in your tournament results, the ArmanBots get the highest win rate simply by analyzing other's behavior. They don't need Merlin or Perci to give any info by speech. So why bother cheap talk? If Merlin and Perci (and other res) are behaving well enough, naturally they will earn others' trust. As for the spies, in order to fail the missions, they unavoidably have to do bad things and will eventually be punished by the res. I believe relying mainly on team proposals, votes, and mission results, not being misled by the good actors and orators can help both AI and human players make better and more accurate decisions for their own team.

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Frantic Pedantic's avatar

Super interesting analysis, thank you! I love Avalon but it's hard to get a group to play...most of my friends are not fans of the 'hidden identity' genre, whereas I love it. Probably why I love playing poker, too.

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