That does revise down my expectations of winning, but my bot having run thousands of times on someone else’s computer and not crashing (or failing the clone check?) is good to hear.
Maybe I’m overestimating the snowball effects of an early pool. If the late game has everyone cooperating with everyone else, your matches with others are only giving a tiny bit fewer points than matches against your copies.
That does revise down my expectations of winning, but my bot having run thousands of times on someone else’s computer and not crashing (or failing the clone check?) is good to hear.
Maybe I’m overestimating the snowball effects of an early pool. If the late game has everyone cooperating with everyone else, your matches with others are only giving a tiny bit fewer points than matches against your copies.