Can you play against the computer

[Footloose20005]

Does anyone know if you can play a game like checkers or chess against the computer in this game or is it online only?

[IceWarm]

It's online only for now. Hopefully AI comes at some point.

[Footloose20005]

Originally posted by IceWarm:

It's online only for now. Hopefully AI comes at some point.

Ok thanks for letting me know

[Naoya]

Don't get your hopes up for it coming in the future. The sandbox nature of this game makes AIs being implement very unlikely. It'd be nice, but I doubt it'll happen.

[IceWarm]

I'd imagine if they bring AI it will only be for a select amount of games. AI isn't going to be able to learn Magic, or any other custom game. I'd imagine only stuff like chess, checkers, Reversi and so on would be supported if we get AI at all. I personally don't need AI since I have other chess games that let me play against the computer.

[Scrub]

I wish they'd add a sticky note about how AI cannot exist.

This is a pure sandbox game, you'd need to program in the AI per board game. The beauty of this game is how little it does for you - you aren't restrained by some technicalities or rules.

The flipside is AI would be pretty nebulous/impossible to program for.

[Deshliem]

There should be some kind of possibilities to add AI.
Did you see The Witcher Adventure Game?
I looks like a mod in the TableTop Simulator with AI.
so, The AI in Tabletop Simulator should work in the same way.

I made the mistake of buy the game thinking I'll be able to play against AI but realizing later that I can only play against other players and also that the game seems to have no restriction on what you can do with the pieces.

[tomthecrazzy]

i like the un likely hood of having to play a cpu when i should be playing a human.

ill call hacks all day on windows chess but on tts its different.

[Huskiefluffs]

*ai cannot exist in this game* so are you saying you cant have an AI for checkers? wtf is the point in single player option then, if you can only play games by yourself.

[Sekkuar666]

Originally posted by Huskie Fluff:

*ai cannot exist in this game* so are you saying you cant have an AI for checkers? wtf is the point in single player option then, if you can only play games by yourself.

Single player allows you to play things like solitaire or play with dominoes or build a card castle or anything like that.

It is also there to test and build mods.

Also there's the hotseat option that allows several people to play locally on the same computer.

[Pretender6]

@Developers listing, it would not start with A.I. First it got to be the 'automatic' placement of pieces, proberly reading off console command in the chat, after that couple it to a external chess site.

And no, i am just a above avarage Computer user so of course there is a good chance that i am wrong about the simplicity of it.

[drooler8]

Playing against the A/I can be done but it requires creating a script to pull that off.

And to correct this:

Originally posted by IceWarm:

It's online only for now. Hopefully AI comes at some point.

Without saying how, I'll just tell you that you can connect illegal and legal versions together as long as everyone connecting all have the same version of Tabletop SImulator and are on the same VPN.

[Aro]

Originally posted by Pretender6:

@Developers listing, it would not start with A.I. First it got to be the 'automatic' placement of pieces, proberly reading off console command in the chat, after that couple it to a external chess site.

It's been two years since the original post. Even when it was bumped a year ago it wasn't really doable. Now that we have scripting it's possible. But just that, possible.
The supported features and amount of code needed don't make it feasible. The simple stuff is already supported.

Originally posted by drooler8:

Playing against the A/I can be done but it requires creating a script to pull that off.

And to correct this:

Originally posted by IceWarm:

It's online only for now. Hopefully AI comes at some point.

Without saying how, I'll just tell you that you can connect illegal and legal versions together as long as everyone connecting all have the same version of Tabletop SImulator and are on the same VPN.

Not a good idea to admit to interacting with piracy.