so i plan on coding a bot to play in the ai games (www.theaigames.com). The map is earth. when the games starts my bot has to choose 6 regions out of a random 12 regions. For my bet to choose its starting positions as best as possible i plan on making a list of regions from most preferred to least preferred. there are 42 regions in total. Could anyone who has got a minute help me put them in the best order?

1. Alaska
2. Northwest Territory
3. Greenland
4. Alberta
5. Ontario
6. Quebec
7. Western United States
8. Eastern United States
9. Central America
10. Venezuela
11. Peru
12 Brazil
13. Argentina
14. Iceland
15. Great Britain
16. Scandinavia
17. Ukraine
18. Western Europe
19. Northern Europe
20. Southern Europe
21. North Africa
22. Egypt
23. East Africa
24. Congo
25. South Africa
26. Madagascar
27. Ural
28. Siberia
29. Yakutsk
30. Kamchatka
31. Irkutsk
32. Kazakhstan
33. China
34. Mongolia
35. Japan
36. Middle East
37. India
38. Siam
39. Indonesia
40. New Guinea
41. Western Australia
42. Eastern Australia

(this is the name of every region and the number that represents it)

e.g. if you think that Siberia, Mongolia and China are the best places to start just write their numbers in order of most preferred to least: 28, 34, 33.

any thing you could write that would help me with why they are the best (strategy ect.) the more numbers you put in a good order, the more i will lover you :P
thanks

Edited 3/19/2014 18:29:45

ummm i disagree with your starting positions... many of your less un-preffered positions are in inefficient bonuses (territory to income ratio wise).

United States should be close to the least preferred...

Make sure your bot avoids wastelands.

And there are territories that are pretty similar. Aus/Ant or Scand/GL? Russia or Africa?

Potato, those aren't ordered yet. Read the actual message. They are just a numbered list of all the territories

Ah I see, missread that, apologies.

Gauge, what's is best depends on the combinations of what's is available (which is random, I believe). Generally I'd say the smaller bonuses are the best to pick in. So you'd wanna pick they key territories in the small bonuses.

how do you choose the territories you want? with coding

Mail me if you want to help :D

i was thinking that if i listed all the regions from best to worst then when the server says to my bot "hey, pick from these 12 regions", my bot will pick the regions that are highest on the "best to worst" list.

this is what i did too

@125ch209- have you made a bot?

i see, but how do i code it? and where? (im bad at these codes)

from what i understood, pretty much all your coding is going to be in BotStarter, you dont need to touch the other classes (unless you want to create some more classes)

@125ch209- have you made a bot?

i just started to TRY and make one, i have been reading a lot about JAVA this past 24h, i didn't know anything about JAVA before, but i think i have enough knowledge now do do something. It isn't that complicated in theory, but i am at the 34th version of my bot now and i still don't have the picking strategy i want :D. I'm pretty close tho

A decent order: Oceania, South America, all territories(regions) 1 away from Oceania/SA, Africa, territories(regions) 1 away from Africa, Europe, North America, Asia

Edited 3/19/2014 21:41:27

@125ch209- i will be coding in C++ to create my bot. i know java too and they are reasonably similar languages.

Maybe we could work together or help each other out a bit? I have this tendency to come up with great ideas in theory but when it comes to coding them it would take like a week straight... would be cool to have someone to run ideas past ect.

Thanks to Bannashake i have a pretty good looking "best to worst" list :D

I'd be happy to work with someone if they want help (not for the money! Just for satisfaction). Feel free to mail me and I'll do what I can to lend a hand.

well maybe we can work something out in PM, but i don't know anything about C++, and 24h ago i didn't know anything about JAVA also, so i don't think i'll be of much help in coding.

@Arun: Are you familiar with JAVA?

alrighty then but if you can create a bot (even using the template as a base) in 24hrs without prior knowledge of java then i have no doubt you can help.