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@djensen Yeah, I posted a while back explaining how TripleA does randomness for dice compared to what A&A Online chose to do. Unless something has changed they use Xorshift128+ generator which there is some research that has shown weaknesses:
https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.10020
https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.03251
https://lemire.me/blog/2017/09/08/the-xorshift128-random-number-generator-fails-bigcrush/

I don’t really know why they chose that generator, most likely either lazyness or lack of understanding. Given the game is targeted at a “broader audience with simpler rules”, my guess is they don’t really care as they want the casual gamer audience which is much larger than us nerds :)

@CrazyIvan I created the post for you here: https://forums.triplea-game.org/topic/1317/unified-low-luck

We have a spam module on the forum that will sometimes flag very long posts for new users. Sorry that it flagged your thread.

@Private-Panic The Admiral must have been so excited about finishing the annihilation of the Austrian fleet that he forgot about the poor Serbians!

@djensen Impressive! Great to have a strong and passionate A&A community!

TripleA Turn Summary for game: Total World War: December 1941 BETA, version: 2.8.0.5

Game History

Round: 2

Research Technology - Italy
            Italy spend 0 on tech rolls
                Italy rolls : 1/1 hits, 0.00 expected hits
            Italy removing all Technology Tokens after successful research.
            Italy discover Production

Combat Move - Italy
            Trigger italianTank1: Setting isLandTransportable to false for unitAttachment attached to italianTank
            Trigger italianHvyTank1: Setting isLandTransportable to false for unitAttachment attached to italianHeavyTank
            Trigger italianAirtraninfra1: Setting isInfrastructure to false for unitAttachment attached to italianAirTransport
            Trigger italianAirtraninfra1: Setting attack to 1 for unitAttachment attached to italianAirTransport
            Trigger italianAirtraninfra1: Setting destroyedWhenCapturedBy cleared  for unitAttachment attached to italianAirTransport
            Trigger italianMecht3: Setting isLandTransportable to false for unitAttachment attached to italianMech.Infantry
            Trigger italianMecht4: Setting isLandTransportable to true for unitAttachment attached to italianMech.Infantry
            Trigger italianTank2: Setting isLandTransportable to true for unitAttachment attached to italianTank
            Trigger italianHvyTank2: Setting isLandTransportable to true for unitAttachment attached to italianHeavyTank
            1 italianStrategicBomber moved from Crete to 79 Sea Zone
            1 italianMarine moved from Tobruk to 51 Sea Zone
            1 italianMarine and 1 italianTransport moved from 51 Sea Zone to 53 Sea Zone
            1 italianMarine moved from 53 Sea Zone to Trans Jordan
            1 italianAirTransport and 1 italianParatrooper moved from Crete to Syria
            1 italianNavalFighter moved from Crete to Trans Jordan
            1 italianFighter moved from Crete to Trans Jordan
            1 italianTacticalBomber moved from Crete to Trans Jordan
            1 italianBattleship and 1 italianCruiser moved from 51 Sea Zone to 53 Sea Zone

Combat - Italy
            Italy lands units in Syria
            Italy creates battle in territory Syria
                Some non-combat units are destroyed:
            Battle in 79 Sea Zone
                Italy attack with 1 italianStrategicBomber
                Britain defend with 1 britishTransport
                    Italy roll dice for 1 italianStrategicBomber in 79 Sea Zone, round 2 : 0/1 hits, 0.17 expected hits
                    Britain roll dice for 1 britishTransport in 79 Sea Zone, round 2 : 0/1 hits, 0.08 expected hits
                    Italy roll dice for 1 italianStrategicBomber in 79 Sea Zone, round 3 : 0/1 hits, 0.17 expected hits
                    Britain roll dice for 1 britishTransport in 79 Sea Zone, round 3 : 0/1 hits, 0.08 expected hits
                    Italy roll dice for 1 italianStrategicBomber in 79 Sea Zone, round 4 : 1/1 hits, 0.17 expected hits
                    Britain roll dice for 1 britishTransport in 79 Sea Zone, round 4 : 0/1 hits, 0.08 expected hits
                    1 britishTransport owned by the Britain lost in 79 Sea Zone
                Italy win, taking Syria from ExiledAllies with 1 italianStrategicBomber remaining. Battle score for attacker is 7
                Casualties for Britain: 1 britishTransport
            Battle in Trans Jordan
                Italy attack with 1 italianFighter, 1 italianMarine, 1 italianNavalFighter and 1 italianTacticalBomber
                Britain defend with 1 Flagpole, 1 Rail and 1 britishInfantry
                    Italy roll dice for 1 italianBattleship in Trans Jordan, round 2 : 1/1 hits, 0.83 expected hits
                    Britain roll dice for 1 britishInfantry in Trans Jordan, round 2 : 1/1 hits, 0.25 expected hits
                    1 britishInfantry owned by the Britain and 1 italianMarine owned by the Italy lost in Trans Jordan
                Italy win with 1 italianFighter, 1 italianNavalFighter and 1 italianTacticalBomber remaining. Battle score for attacker is -1
                Casualties for Italy: 1 italianMarine
                Casualties for Britain: 1 britishInfantry

Non Combat Move - Italy
            Trigger italianMecht1: Setting isLandTransport to true for unitAttachment attached to italianMech.Infantry
            Trigger UnitsGSyria2: Setting switch to false for conditionAttachmentUnitsGSyria attached to VichyFrance
            Trigger IncomeRegulation4: Setting switch to false for conditionAttachmentYes attached to ExiledAllies
            Trigger italianAirtraninfra2: Setting isInfrastructure to true for unitAttachment attached to italianAirTransport
            Trigger italianAirtraninfra2: Setting attack to 0 for unitAttachment attached to italianAirTransport
            Trigger italianAirtraninfra2: Setting destroyedWhenCapturedBy to FROM:Italy for unitAttachment attached to italianAirTransport
            Trigger italianMecht2: Setting isLandTransport to false for unitAttachment attached to italianMech.Infantry
            Trigger UnitsGSyria2: VichyFrance has 1 germanInfantry placed in Syria
            1 italianFighter, 1 italianNavalFighter and 1 italianTacticalBomber moved from Trans Jordan to Crete
            1 italianAntiTankGun, 1 italianArtillery, 1 italianCombatEngineer and 1 italianInfantry moved from Cyrenaica to Tobruk
            1 Material and 1 Truck moved from Cyrenaica to 51 Sea Zone
            1 Material, 1 Truck and 1 italianTransport moved from 51 Sea Zone to 50 Sea Zone
            1 Material and 1 Truck moved from 50 Sea Zone to Southern Italy
            1 Material and 1 Truck moved from Northern Italy to Southern Italy
            1 italianAirTransport moved from Syria to Crete
            1 italianSubmarine moved from 48 Sea Zone to 43 Sea Zone
            3 italianDestroyers moved from 51 Sea Zone to 53 Sea Zone
            1 italianInfantry moved from Rome to 49 Sea Zone
            1 italianInfantry moved from Southern Italy to 49 Sea Zone
            1 italianTransport moved from 51 Sea Zone to 50 Sea Zone
            2 italianInfantrys moved from Southern Italy to 50 Sea Zone
            2 italianInfantrys and 1 italianTransport moved from 50 Sea Zone to 51 Sea Zone
            1 italianBattleship, 2 italianInfantrys and 1 italianTransport moved from 49 Sea Zone to 51 Sea Zone
            4 italianInfantrys moved from 51 Sea Zone to Tobruk
            1 Truck moved from Southern Italy to Northern Italy
            1 italianStrategicBomber moved from 79 Sea Zone to Madagascar
            1 Train moved from Paris to Northern Italy
            1 Train and 1 italianAntiAirGun moved from Northern Italy to Northern France
            1 italianInfantry and 1 italianMech.Infantry moved from Orel Kursk to Voronezh
            1 italianInfantry moved from Kharkov to Voronezh
            1 italianArtillery and 1 italianMech.Infantry moved from Western Ukraine to Voronezh
            1 Truck and 1 italianInfantry moved from Western Ukraine to Voronezh
            1 italianMech.Infantry and 1 italianTank moved from Romania to Kharkov
            1 italianTank moved from Northern Yugoslavia to Western Ukraine

Purchase Units - Italy
            Italy buy 2 italianArtillerys, 1 italianBarracks, 4 italianInfantrys and 1 italianTransport; Remaining resources: 0 PUs; 0 techTokens;

Place Units - Italy
            Units in Southern Italy being upgraded or consumed: 2 Materials
            1 italianBarracks placed in Southern Italy
            4 italianInfantrys placed in Rome
            2 italianArtillerys placed in Northern Italy
            1 italianTransport placed in 49 Sea Zone

Activate Technology - Italy
            Italy activating Production
            Trigger germanIFR5: Setting givesMovement to 3:germanFighter for unitAttachment attached to italianAirfield
            Trigger germanIFR5: Setting givesMovement to 3:germanNavalFighter for unitAttachment attached to italianAirfield
            Trigger germanIFR6: Setting givesMovement to 3:germanNavalFighter for unitAttachment attached to italianCarrier

Turn Complete - Italy
            Italy collect 26 PUs; end with 26 PUs
            Units generate 6 techTokens; Italy end with 6 techTokens

Combat Hit Differential Summary :

Italy rolls : : 1.00
    Italy : 0.67
    Britain : 0.50

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@Panther The following should now be fixed:

• Incorrect transports already unloaded error message: https://github.com/triplea-game/triplea/issues/874
• Transport loading bug (rules): https://github.com/triplea-game/triplea/issues/3162

@Private-Panic @Wittmann Not to add fuel to the CP fire but… Let the invasion of Germany begin!

*** COMMUNICATION TO ALLIED COMMANDERS ***
It is time to take advantage of the CP disarray and low morale! Look for any possible weaknesses along all fronts and drive the enemies back! The time has come to put an end to CP aggression!

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@Entek TripleA is using an outdated Java version on your machine instead of the new one:
java.home=c:\program files\common files\i4j_jres\1.8.0_66

I’d recommend the following:

1. Uninstall TripleA
2. Delete old Java folder (c:\program files\common files\i4j_jres\1.8.0_66)
3. Re-install TripleA

@Wittmann Don’t worry we are only in round 2 so plenty of time for us all to execute an even worse one :)

Testing Forum poster

Test summary from TripleA, engine version: 2.6, time: 5:40:29 PM
Savegame

@arathorn I am interested in implementing War Room on TripleA especially if it starts to gather a significant following and the consensus is that the gameplay is well done and fun. The last 2 A&A maps (1914 and zombies) have both been pretty underwhelming IMO and not worth the effort to implement in TripleA so hopefully War Room changes that trend :)

@Wittmann Its alright. As long as the cowardly Frogs survive and defend Paris, the rest of the Allies will carry them to victory!

@SuperbattleshipYamato Easy and Hard AI are completely differently coded AIs. Easy AI is very simple and has very little logic. Its essentially just there for people to learn the game and practice. Hard AI is coded to try to maximize its TUV trades and conquer factories/capitals. Its not at all surprising that Hard AI beats Easy AI even with massive bids.

Hey all. Feedback on the AI is always welcome and a lot of discussion around it can be found on the TripleA forum here: https://forums.triplea-game.org/topic/105/ai-development-discussion-and-feedback. I can assure you that it doesn’t cheat with dice rolls and you can always check the dice statistics in the game you are playing. As mentioned, you can give the AI extra income to make it a bit more competitive once you get a hang of a map or even give it a larger bid. The AI generally plays most maps fairly well especially for beginners to learn it though it struggles a bit with naval warfare and overall macro-strategy. It definitely isn’t any where near the level of expert human players but can give beginners and casual players a decent challenge.

@Private-Panic Wow! Brutal dice on Belgrade. Those brave Serbians were absolutely annihilated! Guess maybe they should have been more cowardly like the French and retreated.

@djensen Looks like its up and running. Nice work! We’ll work on getting the TripleA forum posting updated and push out a new stable shortly.

@captainwalker Try using PBEM instead of PBF. That will still roll dice and should avoid the forum error.

@Wittmann Fall of Damascus! With a strong beachhead, the British now have a base to further expand their army and march towards Constantinople!

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