Highlight Auto Payment

[tehdiplomat]

Sometimes its unclear what the AI will try to auto pay with before it does so. It would be nice to highlight the auto pay feature so you can know whether or not to utilize it.

[Hanmac]

Apropos Auto Payment, sometimes the AI prefers to pay life for Forgotten Monument given ability
instead of using the Mana abilities of Hidden Courtyard instead. (it might depend on the order of the lands)

[tehdiplomat]

@Hanmac I think we can just make test cases for things like that and then fix them

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[tool4ever]

the way I'd envision this:

• 3 level of "AI assisted playing" as user preference
  • Expert
    Off
  • Casual
    "Highlight entities that could become next user action" (default)
    • this payment idea
    • Added castability highlighting for cards in hand #9383 already adds some support before that step
    • feat: make "Auto" mulligan button smarter #9863 also related
  • Beginner
    like level 2 but now the highlighting is limited further based on AI suggestions for good plays
    • this can also include Auto-targeting via AI #3210
    • maybe something like "yield until AI thinks I should act" based on Expanded yield system / auto-pass options #9643
    • potentially even different border colors to reflect differences in AiAbilityDecision scoring
• when a fresh install is detected (no previous user directory?) show a small onboarding dialog on first start
  • later more preferences can be grouped into appropriate levels with respective defaults 🥳

[tehdiplomat]

Yea that sounds like a good full project idea. For expert mode, does that mean the auto-tapper would be disabled? The deck I'm running now seems to prefer tapping my creature lands over a painland (even if it can tap the painland for colorless), because i guess its valuing the optionality of the painland over the combat prowess of a 1/1?

I haven't made any real progress over any of these ideas, so if Claude wants a shot at them that should be fine too.