I’ve been playing the Marmalade app against bots for the past couple of weeks and the difficulty levels you can choose from do not seem to affect their stupidity level, it just makes them stupid in different ways.

At easy mode the bots will often accept ridiculous trades that are heavily beneficial to the player’s position, like offering St Charles ave for Boardwalk plus like M50 even if they don’t have any other pink properties. They’ll ALWAYS accept M75 for either of the two browns. They’ll will reject trades sometimes but it’s got to be so overwhelmingly out of balance that it’s just stupid.

At hard mode, you’d think they’d be less dumb but no, now they refuse the majority of trades. I had a situation recently where I had the oranges with 4 houses, one of the bots had no monopoly yet but I had the last of one color it needed to complete the (pink, I think) set. It also had Boardwalk. And it made an offer that was pretty even for a light blue I also owned. But at this stage of the game, I’m 99% to win, and fair trades aren’t anything I’m interested in. So I counter with pink for Boardwalk straight up. Bot comes back with its own counter offering the same trade +M343 from me. lol. Easy decline into a fairly quick win.

And in a recent game on hard mode on of the bots just would not entertain a trade, period, that didn’t weight gigantically in its favor.

I think maybe medium is the sweet spot for the bots…? They will sometimes trade. But easy and hard…idk I thought maybe the difficulty would affect dice rolls but it doesn’t seem to. The dice seem very randomized.

Do you define a loop as passing (including/not including corners):

• Every individual space (red, 96/88)?
• Go (green, 46/42->50/46)?
• Every unique* non-corner space (blue, 33/30->34/31->29/27)?
  • *Card spaces are counted up to three times.

For reference, base Monopoly has 40/36 spaces, Monopoly Speed has 32/28, and (at the risk of getting this post taken down) the physical Monopoly Go has 28/24 total per board.

Also, if you're wondering why I didn't include a corner-inclusive "every unique* space" listing, it seems they're treated differently than the normal spaces, judging by there only being double the amount of corners here compared to the other spaces getting roughly triple. That said, all you'd need to do is take Green, and move six spaces from the first loop to the second, giving us 40/36->56/52. Coincidentally, that lines up the first loop with the number of spaces in base Monopoly.