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Comment by nkmnz

2 days ago

Is it even possible to win the game? I've played it 100 million times in a monte carlo simulation and even applied two heuristics to hit a winning strategy: 1. heavily over- or under-weighted choosing tractor production when paid tasks are available; 2. when a paid task was available in the previous round but not chosen, the weight for this round is reduced

The best result I've gotten is 998 tractors after round 120.

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alexpotato  15 hours ago

> Is it even possible to win the game?

Realized after I posted that it's probably really hard to actually win.

> I've played it 100 million times in a monte carlo simulation and even applied two heuristics to hit a winning strategy:

This is the MOST HackerNews comment ever (in the good sense) and it makes me immensely happy that this is the kind of feedback I received.

Btw, going to post a new version with some tweaks to the ruble payout etc.

neonstatic  2 days ago

> Is it even possible to win the game?

If it's a faithful simulator of soviet economy, then you should not be able to win :)

  • alexpotato  15 hours ago

    I was tweaking the game and realized that the win conditions are really hard if not impossible.

    I did seriously consider if that is really the best example of the Soviet economy ;-)