Original Arcomage rules - Forum

ulrichsg on 11:48, 8. Dec, 2013

#1

Hello all,

I am a programmer doing a little personal project about teaching a computer to play games, and I want to use Arcomage because of its simple rules and need for tactical decision-making. However, there are some aspects of the game rules I could not find any documentation on. So I wonder if any of you could fill me in on how exactly the (original) game works:

1. Does each player have their own deck, or is there a shared deck both players draw from?
2. Does the deck contain exactly one copy of each card, or are some cards included multiple times?
3. What happens with cards after they are played or discarded?

Thanks in advance,
Ulrich

justfun on 08:26, 9. Dec, 2013

#2

ulrichsg wrote:
Hello all,

I am a programmer doing a little personal project about teaching a computer to play games, and I want to use Arcomage because of its simple rules and need for tactical decision-making. However, there are some aspects of the game rules I could not find any documentation on. So I wonder if any of you could fill me in on how exactly the (original) game works:

1. Does each player have their own deck, or is there a shared deck both players draw from?
All cards are avaibalbe everyone and u can build deck from it.
2. Does the deck contain exactly one copy of each card, or are some cards included multiple times?
The game works that there is unlimited cards u just have % chance to draw common, unncommon and rare cards from your deck pool. That means u can have many same cards in hand.
3. What happens with cards after they are played or discarded?
As i said there is no card limit. U just have chance to draw.
Thanks in advance,
Ulrich

justfun on 08:31, 9. Dec, 2013

#3

and it would be really hard to program good ai for this game. First u must build good decks overall and set up how u gonna win this game. Then u need ai.

Mojko on 11:07, 9. Dec, 2013

#4

Hi,

1 - each player has his own deck. Decks needs to be built, but players starts with 3 pre-built decks to chose from
2 - each card can be in the deck only once
3 - from the deck perspective - nothing, the card still remains in the deck

DPsycho on 01:39, 10. Dec, 2013

#5

I may be wrong, but I was under the impression that he was asking about how M&M handles the Arcomage game originally, not our MArcomage take on it. From playing the standalone version, I have to say I can't recall whether cards came up more than once before the decks had to be "shuffled."

And if I am wrong and he's asking about MArcomage, the Mojko's answer for #2 is incorrect. While the player can only select each card only once for the deck, doing so populates the simulated "deck" with multiple occurrences of each card with Common ones having enough copies that it is usual to have two of the same card in hand at some point. Rare cards occur in much fewer numbers, but it's still possible to draw more than one of the same.

Mojko on 07:59, 10. Dec, 2013

#6

Yeah, I thought that he was asking about MArcomage. And in #2 I was talking about card presence in the deck which has the restriction, not in the game itself.

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