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                                            Ryder Timberlake

Prevent any player from randomly starting the game with a full region

I will start with a quick look at this today

Prevent any player from randomly starting the game with a full region

Looked at this yesterday. Nearly have a failing test, will commit and push when available

Do we need to balance the turn order advantage?

Maybe we could start checking results with giving the first player one or more fewer units on one or more turns.

Do we need to balance the turn order advantage?

Also you may have already read this, but: [Correcting for the first-player advantage in Risk ](https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2009/08/20/correcting_for/)

Make AI less procedural

_If we only look at the moves available in the current turn, I don't think there will be too many. Going deeper into the future would make the AI smarter,...

Make AI less procedural

Also, if the paper already says what I just said but better, I didn't read it yet. On the list :)

Provide feedback in the UI (perhaps in a log) of actions

For 3) you could maybe pop it into local storage if you want benefits of both persistence and off-loading onto the client

Provide feedback in the UI (perhaps in a log) of actions

So one channel for game actions and one channel for game state?

Provide feedback in the UI (perhaps in a log) of actions

_Yeah, that's what I'm thinking. We could always send them over the same channel too and differentiate them by type (e.g. %Message{type: :state_update}, %Message{type: :log_update}) but channels are just processes...