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Pandemonium Purger
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Joined: Wednesday, 11th April 2012, 02:42
Location: Sydney, Australia
What does 'Optimal' mean?
-Maximum liklihood of winning of winning the current game/any arbitrary game
But there are lots of other 'optimals' people are interested in, such as
-Minimize mean time between ascensions of the currently chosen goal (so something that improves win rate but takes too long/too much energy/brainpower to implement easily loses here, for example)
-Minimize expected time from picking up the game to first win (so don't include advice if learning it/implementing it takes longer than the win rate it will help with for a newer player)
-Minimize real time or turn count for speedrun attempts (so if it's win-rate-optimal but takes too long in either sense it's out)
And I'm sure I'm missing some.