From: Anthony Moralez <anthony.moralez@...>
Date: 2005-10-19T23:18:32+09:00
Subject: Re: [SOLUTION] Lost Cities (#51)

Hi Daniel and James-

On 10/18/05, Daniel Sheppard <daniels@pronto.com.au> wrote:
> Hmmm.... tried running your client through my tester, and it ends up
> trying to draw cards from a pile that it can't, resulting in an infinite
> loop of "There are no cards there" errors. This could be due to
> line-wrapping in the email though - I already had to fix up this code:
>
>        cards.last != @last_discard and cards.any? { |card| playable?
> (card) }
>
> So that it was all on one line, otherwise it tries to call playable with
> no args.
>
> (to make your player work with my tester, I also changed all references
> of "@hand" to "@my_hand").

Thanks for those fixes. I found the other problem. Risk player keeps
track of the discards and his last discard but never notices if he
picks one up.  Below are the fixes I used to get it to run. But I
think I might have changed it's behavior.

> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: James Edward Gray II [mailto:james@grayproductions.net]
> > Sent: Wednesday, 19 October 2005 8:18 AM
> > To: ruby-talk ML
> > Subject: Re: [SOLUTION] Lost Cities (#51)
> >
> >    def discard_card( choices )
> >      discard = choices.sort_by do |card|
> >        [ playable?(card) ? 1 : 0, playable?(card, :them) ? 1 : 0,
> >          card.value.is_a?(String) ? 0 : card.value ]
> >      end.first
> >
> >      @last_discard = discard
@piles[:discard][discard.land].delete discard
> >      "d#{discard.value}#{discard.land[0, 1]}".sub("nv", "")
> >    end
> >
> >    def draw_card
> >      want = @piles[:discards].find do |land, cards|
> >        not @piles[:me][land].empty?
and (not cards.find { |card| @my_hand.include? card } ) and
> >        cards.last != @last_discard and cards.any? { |card| playable?
> > (card) }
> >      end
> >      if want
> >        want.first[0, 1]
> >      else
> >        "n"
> >      end
> >    end