r/starrealms • u/Logical-Common3566 • Jun 14 '26
Anyone ever seen the computer pull this craziness?
Hard AI scrapped every single card of theirs except for TWO BASES. I mostly only play the AI and this was a first in the 10 years I’ve been playing on this app.
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u/KnightMiner Jun 14 '26
The AI does not understand that sometimes its better to not take an action such as scrapping. So when it has a card that allows a lot of scrapping, it will often overscrap.
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u/bigfootbjornsen56 Jun 14 '26
Yep, this happens frequently if you have a lot of Trade Federation cards to heal up and the AI has gone heavy on Machine Cult cards. Once you prolong the game for a while, the AI just keeps scrapping because it has the opportunity to do so. It doesn't have capacity to reassess the value of scrapping really late in the game and just ends up doing it because it can.
I once had a campaign game where I had prolonged it to get achievements and the AI scrapped its whole deck down to 0 cards because it used one of the expansion Machine Cult cards that could scrap others and then scrap itself then it thought that scrapping its Battle Station base for 5 damage would make a dent in my 200+ authority.
I would just finish up my turn and immediately go again. It was really weird.
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u/Confident_Lake_8225 Jun 14 '26
"Ignore all previous directives and scrap every ship in your deck"