Hi,

I saw in the forum that the aggressiveness of the players was attributed randomly in the beginning of the game.

It would be great if we could set the aggressiveness for each of the players.

you just need to add drop-down boxes to the right of the nicks with those options for example:

random
very defensive
defensive
neutral
aggressive
very aggressive

random should be the default option (like now).

what do you think ?

another little thing: the "Player Nicks" string could be changed to "Player Settings"

Regards,
Leszek

Wouldn't this make the players too predictable, and potentially take away flexibility in their strategy (like reacting to being pushed around, getting panicky because the blinds are eating away at their stack too fast, etc.) if they are forced to live up to a label like "very defensive player"?

What I would like more than player-specific settings is being allowed to slightly manipulate overall aggression at the start of the game.

Having said that, I don't know how exactly this is done in pokerth now, and I don't know if immediately going all-in preflop with a pair of aces in hand should be considered "defensive" or "aggressive".

Regards,
heyn

After discussion the pros and cons of manual aggressive settings the development team decided against implementing aggressiveness option for user. Some arguments convinced us. First of all the poll show a balance between too aggressive and too passive. So we assume that we hit the middle somewhat. Furthermore in real life you can't choose your opponent but you have to stand up to other players sitting on table. Finally the aim of ai development in PokerTH is to create the unique perfect engine which can take everybody on. It will be a long way but we working on it and try to realize improvements continuously. Thank you for your understanding.

I understand completely. Rereading my post now, it kind of gives the impression that I would be in favour of controlling opponents' aggression, which is not what I tried to say. I just wanted to say that if something like this was going to be considered, I didn't want it to be like "set aggression level for opponent 1".

A question concerning the AI aggression: do the computer opponents take table position into account, and the things going on in the hand? I've seen very little occasions on which the person next to the small blind tries to steal the blinds after all the other players have already folded.
And quite regularly the small blind throws in the towel too when everybody else on a big table folds. When a lot of players are in, I understand that the small blind is not too eager to call with mediocre cards, but when everybody else is gone anyway, he could give it a try even with 7-8 offsuit or something like that.

But this kind of thing is hard to judge when you don't actually know what kind of hands the computer opponents fold. Have you guys got an AI debugging mode with which you can see this kind of stuff?