Hex Takeover

I know the board game industry is dying off but you may have a sleeper seller here with this game. Print out like 100+ some odd beginning maps and send enough of 6 colors to choose from. Send enough pieces to cover any possible board for each color and play the game as follows. Winner gets to pick the next starting board or gets to start first and goes in clockwise direction. If winner chooses to pick board then loser (first out or lowest count) gets to go first then in clockwise direction. Vice Versa if winner chooses to go first. To start a new game youngest goes first and oldest chooses the board. Winner decided upon players by set amount of games won or total points scored (points counted as squares won at end of game). /And or turn this into a real online game where we play against real people\

Seriously. I downloaded this game because I thought the concept would make for a good strategy game, and I still think the concept is great, but the game has no strategy, at least in matches against AI. This thing is one of the worst I’ve ever seen. I mean, have you developers even HEARD of a minimax algorithm? Let alone alpha-beta pruning! The AI is awful, even in the “hard” setting. It just jumps haphazardly when it would be safer to clone itself, and it more often than not ignores any moves that would destroy many of my hexagons. If you happen to die or be left without any possible moves to make and let their battle against each other play out, more often than not they’ll get stuck in what I call the triangle of death, because it’s an endless loop where there is only one empty spot and one AI player jumps at it while the other jumps at the hole that the first AI made, etc. You end up with the two players making motions only in the lines of an equilateral triangle. A loop that there’s no getting out of. Awful. They could make moves from other places, but they always stick to the triangle. There used to be online play, but an update removed that feature. Now there are only “leagues”. And these leagues don’t have any real people in them. Go into the league menu, go into another, then go into the league menu again, and almost all the skins of the “other players” will have changed! The only skins that stay the same are yours and the ones which have the default yellow bear skin. Very despicable, dear developers. Online play was much better than being stuck with the easy AI. They must have taken it out to fix some synchronization bugs. They should make the AI better too!

But in new version where when you land on a chest that gives you gems, it adds them to the coins only and doesn’t give you the gems. Extremely annoying as they are so difficult to get in the first place. Also the adds are very annoying. It used to be after every other game which is more than understandable. Now they are during games. Awful negative player experience. I recommend changing it back. And $8 to remove ads? Maybe if you put new maps in and vary the difficulty of the opponents. I would only pay $1, maybe $2 to remove ads. The game play is good but the levels repeat every 15 or 20ish. The customizations also don’t match the ad that enticed me to download it. The ad showed chess pieces but they are nowhere to be found. I hate when companies market one thing and deliver something completely different.