I do prefer to just play against the AI, not the automa, but given that you can't play against AI in the physical board game, the automa is the best way to simulate that and can be a fun challenge to play which is why it would also be in this online version of the game. In my opinion, the automa on easy or normal difficulties can actually provide a very similar score to a person (or AI) playing.

However, that also depends on the actions you choose to take and the cards and food that you can acquire for yourself during the game. Depending on the difficulty you play at, the automa can be nearly impossible to beat. So then towards it being a cheat version, the answer is not really. Since the actions never happen in the same order either (except in the online automa challenge), it doesn't help that much to know what the automa is going to do.Ģ. If you want to know what each automa move is actually doing, you can just hover over the action to see what it's description is. In addition, you obviously don't play the same way the automa does, so there is no reason for the automa to have a tutorial to teach you how it plays since your turns are still taken the same way as normal. I'm going to take a guess and assume that when creating this version of the game online, they figured their main audience would be people who already knew the game and how it works from the actual physical version. This game is based around the board game, which explains in the rules what the automa is and how it works. For instance, it is possible for the Automa to lay eggs in the very first round, i.e. This is all fair enough, but I agree that it doesn't play with the same rules.

Automa also has actions that activate all pink powers (at which point any pink powers you have will activate). Also, for the purposes of various brown powers, the human player always wins when compared to the Automa (example: least birds in wetlands). Automa also has a default number (starting point) towards EoR goal depending on the goal and the round number. Throughout the game Automa draws cards from its own deck that tells it what to do that turn (get food, face down card, face up card, lay eggs) and whether it gets a point towards the EoR goals, gets a point taken away, or nothing. If the face up cards do not match the bonus card, Automa takes a face down card worth 3, 4, or 5 points (depending on difficulty) Automa also does face down card actions during the game.

The Automa gets a bonus card at the beginning of the game that defines which face-up birds it takes (which get counted at feather value) when it gets given the take a face-up bird action. Originally posted by The Leviathan:Automa is primarily a way to make the original board game playable as a single player game (you don't have normal AI to play against in a physical board game). Automa is primarily a way to make the original board game playable as a single player game (you don't have normal AI to play against in a physical board game).

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