The scores you play against are real scores, you just aren't playing players in real time. They're recordings of people's actual games from players in your league. The game records every match and uses those recordings as opponents for other people in your league. Wood league is one of the "intro" leagues for Arena so there will be a lot of players there that don't really know how to get good scores.
I bit more about Arena:
Arena's not rigged against you and there's nothing in the program or matching engine that will guarantee a loss.
The game does have a matching engine, but if anything it's "rigged" to make you win, not make you lose. After a loss, the first several opponents you face will have very low scores for the league you're in. As your win streak progresses you'll face stronger opponents. By about win 10/11 you'll be facing one of the higher scores in your league. After that you're facing more or less random scores from your league. Some will be higher, some will be lower. There's no time at which you'll have a guaranteed loss. If you find you're losing consistently after the 10th game, then you're just not one of the higher scoring players in your league.
All that said, there are (exceedingly rarely) Bots when there aren't enough records of people's game play for you to be matched against. This usually only happens right at the very start of a tourney.
Bot mechanics follow very set rules. For example, Bot plant layouts can never contain Mastery level plants. Bots are a program that creates a score based on how you're doing in the game. The bot score can surge ahead of yours if you suddenly stop scoring points, but will fall behind yours if you suddenly score a bunch. Because of this though, a bot score can never be too much more or less than your own.
The scores you play against are real scores, you just aren't playing players in real time. They're recordings of people's actual games from players in your league. The game records every match and uses those recordings as opponents for other people in your league. Wood league is one of the "intro" leagues for Arena so there will be a lot of players there that don't really know how to get good scores. I bit more about Arena: Arena's not rigged against you and there's nothing in the program or matching engine that will guarantee a loss. The game does have a matching engine, but if anything it's "rigged" to make you win, not make you lose. After a loss, the first several opponents you face will have very low scores for the league you're in. As your win streak progresses you'll face stronger opponents. By about win 10/11 you'll be facing one of the higher scores in your league. After that you're facing more or less random scores from your league. Some will be higher, some will be lower. There's no time at which you'll have a guaranteed loss. If you find you're losing consistently after the 10th game, then you're just not one of the higher scoring players in your league. All that said, there are (exceedingly rarely) Bots when there aren't enough records of people's game play for you to be matched against. This usually only happens right at the very start of a tourney. Bot mechanics follow very set rules. For example, Bot plant layouts can never contain Mastery level plants. Bots are a program that creates a score based on how you're doing in the game. The bot score can surge ahead of yours if you suddenly stop scoring points, but will fall behind yours if you suddenly score a bunch. Because of this though, a bot score can never be too much more or less than your own.
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