Round 3.5 - 7 Wonders Bots

Each of you will compete try to build the most amazing Wonder in all of Hyrule. However you are very busy and your workers aren’t the smartest and can’t think for themselves, therefore you’ll need to create a set of instructions for them to follow. Yes that’s right, this is a bots based game!

If you already know how to play 7 Wonders or have watched the video then skip to the bit that says BOTS!

General 7 Wonders rules:

The game is split up into 3 ages, at the start of each age, each player is given a pack of 7 cards, they pick 1 card to play and pass the rest of them to the next player, you keep picking and passing cards until 1 card is left, this final card is then discarded.

Upon picking a card you can play it in 1 of 3 ways:
-Build the card itself
-Discard the card to build a stage of your wonder
-Discard a card to gain 3 coins

Cards and wonder stages have a cost to pay:
-For the most part the cost is to be producing certain resources
-If you do not produce enough resources, you may pay a neighbour to use their resources for 2 coins per resource
-Some cards require you to pay coins into the bank
-Some cards are free
-Some cards are upgrades and will be free providing you have already built a certain card in the previous age

There are 7 types of cards used in the game:
-Raw Materials (brown cards): these structures produce resources (Lumber, Stone, Bricks, Ore)
-Manufactured Goods (gray cards): these structures produce resources (Glass, Paper, Fabric)
-Civilian Structures (blue cards): these structures score victory points.
-Scientific Structures (green cards): these structures score victory points depending on your progress in the three scientific fields (Compass, Tablet, Gear)
-Commercial Structures (yellow cards): these buildings earn coins, produce resources, change commerce rules and sometimes earn victory points.
-Military Structures (red cards): these buildings increase your military might. This comes into play during Conflict resolution.
-Guilds (purple cards): these buildings allow players to score points according to specific criteria

Scoring Points:


BOTS!!!
When designing your bot you will need to list an order of priority that you wish your bot to follow when choosing cards/actions, you may be as specific or as vague as you like (ie you may create a fully ordered list of every card in the game, or you could just state the colours you wish to prioritise)

You will need to program the following things into your bot:
-A priority order for cards for each age (including when to discard for wonders/money)
-A priority order for cards to discard for each age
-If given an option as to which neighbour to buy cards from, a way of selecting which neighbour to buy from

Things your bot will know:
-Which player is controlling which bot
-Which players are sat next to you (and thus the order in which hands are passed round)
-The cards each bot has played previously
-The current point totals per player
-Remember what cards are in piles which it’s already seen and where those piles currently are

If at any point there are multiple cards that meet the criteria for which card to select then a random card from those cards will be picked

You must also pick a starting raw material that your wonder will produce for free. (Lumber, Stone, Bricks, Ore)
To build your wonder it will cost you the following resources:
Stage 1: 2x your chosen starting resource
Stage 2: 3x the player to your rights starting resource
Stage 3: 4x your chosen starting resource

Example Bot: (You cannot use this example bot as your bot, please only use it as a guide on how to build a bot)


Here is a full list of the 7 wonders cards available for this game

The player with the highest score will keep all their lives, all other players will lose 1 life
In the event of a tie we'll look at the bot who produced the most points in 1 colour, if this is still a tie then most points in 2 colours 

Bots must be submitted by the below deadline, however we will not announce final results until 24 hours after this deadline, we will however be providing a hand by hand summery during the 24 hours, but we're gonna be slow with it to create suspense.

[countdown:Deadline=May 3 2020 6:00 PM -4]Time's Up![/countdown]