Package breitband.game.players

Class CheatingAIPlayer

java.lang.Object

breitband.game.players.SPlayer

breitband.game.players.RandomAIPlayer

breitband.game.players.CheatingAIPlayer

All Implemented Interfaces:

breitband.preset.Player

public class CheatingAIPlayer
extends RandomAIPlayer

Class for cheatingAIPlayer that cheats 50% of the time and acts like randomAI 50% of time

Author:

Klara Schöbel

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor	Description
CheatingAIPlayer(int id, java.lang.String name, java.io.Reader read, breitband.preset.ImmutableList<java.lang.String> con, int num)	Constructs a new cheating AI with and id, a name, a reader, available contracts, and number of players

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
boolean	randomDecision(int percent)	Method to make seemingly random decisions at a certain percentage
breitband.preset.Move	request()	Overrides request method of RandomAIPlayer randomly deciding (with a 50% chance) to cheat or use the super.request() also deciding the way of cheating randomly the idea is to make the cheating percentage rise continuously in order to give the later cheating attempts a chance of happening (since the game will terminate after every cheating attempt)

Methods inherited from class breitband.game.players.RandomAIPlayer

pickedUpCables, randomCable, randomCity, randomContract

Methods inherited from class breitband.game.players.SPlayer

cityOnRoute, contractExists, distanceNotPossibleWithAvailableResources, distancePossibleWithType, getBoard, getName, getPlayerId, getScore, illegalBorderCrossing, illegalCableCrossings, init, inSameRegion, routePossible, update, verifyGame

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

CheatingAIPlayer

public CheatingAIPlayer(int id,
                        java.lang.String name,
                        java.io.Reader read,
                        breitband.preset.ImmutableList<java.lang.String> con,
                        int num)
                 throws java.lang.Exception

Constructs a new cheating AI with and id, a name, a reader, available contracts, and number of players

Parameters:

id - id of player (see also SPlayer.getPlayerId())

name - name of player (see also SPlayer.getName())

read - XML parser (see also Config)

con - available Contracts (see also Board.getPlayerContracts())

num - number of players

Throws:

java.lang.Exception - if config is invalid

Method Detail

request

public breitband.preset.Move request()

Overrides request method of RandomAIPlayer randomly deciding (with a 50% chance) to cheat or use the super.request() also deciding the way of cheating randomly the idea is to make the cheating percentage rise continuously in order to give the later cheating attempts a chance of happening (since the game will terminate after every cheating attempt)

since we check this percentage four times and if the last one fails there is a fifth event to be considered each possibility should be 1/5 we achieve this by starting from 1/5, to 1/4, to 1/3, to 1/2

Specified by:

request in interface breitband.preset.Player

Overrides:

request in class RandomAIPlayer

Returns:

Move created by either cheating or calling super.request

randomDecision

public boolean randomDecision(int percent)

Method to make seemingly random decisions at a certain percentage

Parameters:

percent - percentage of "true" outcome

Returns:

true in ``percent`` of cases