David Alves/YALT

YALT Yet Another Little Test

1.8 rating 1985 Finally found and fixed 2 bugs in surfing after a long session of debugging vs. WaveSurfingChallengeBotB. 1.71 rating 1965 Many tiny tweaks. 1.701 rating 1963 Predicted location is now much more exact. Surfs all waves. Movement should be less jittery. 1.641 & 1.64 rating 1930 (for both) Identical except that one of them surfs all waves and the other surfs only the closest wave. 1.632 rating 1900 Fixed an off-by-one error in bullet impact time calculations, now holds the record vs. Bot A in the WaveSurfingChallenge Segmenting surf stats on different things. Movement predictor now takes into account the "sharper turns" code. 1.62 rating 1952 Different wave weighting Fixed a nasty bug in near-wall behavior. Hopefully this will pass up 1.4 1.53 rating 1916 Enabled flattener Changed gun segmentation 1.52 rating 1926 Regained 23 points. 1.5 rating: 1903 Changed the way that waves in the air are weighted, now uses WallSmoothing on every wall 1.4 rating: 1943 Fixed a bug where wave impact time was incorrectly calculated Now surfs multiple waves 1.3 rating: 1913

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No flattener -> kicks the crap out of HOTs but doesn't work so well vs. most other bots. By the way, I just did the math... Do you think 196,000 segments is too many? ;-) --David Alves

Wow! But you don't need a flattener really. It just gives some 10 points or so I think. -- PEZ

@PEZ: Just to be clear, when you say flattener you do not mean old school statistical flattening, in addition to all the flattening that is going on with surfing do you? -- jim

What I mean by "flattener" is recording what guess factor you're at when a wave reaches you, even if you don't get hit by a bullet. The idea is to create a flat profile without relying on getting hit to do it. I think this is what PEZ means too. --David Alves

Exactly. If I switch off all detection on when I'm hit by a bullet and only leave this flattener a movement that is flatter than flat juice with flat juice on top is the result. -- PEZ

Uh... you put juice on top of juice? --David Alves

Help me solve The Fushi Mystery --David Alves

I finally wrote my first SlowBot...

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Round 1 of 100
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SYSTEM: davidalves.net.YALT 1.82dev wins the round.
1010 INFO: --- Round ended ---
1010 INFO: Damage inflicted by known waves:   0.0  average per round: 0.0
1010 INFO: Damage inflicted by unknown waves: 0.0  average per round: 0.0
1010 INFO: Turns skipped: 186  average per round: 186.0

The 1010 at the beginning of each line is the time... so it skipped 18.4% of all turns. Oops. --David Alves

Time to remove this bot from the RR@H table? I don't know if you can follow the rankings yyet, but with 411 battles Phoenix is now at 2026 points! -- PEZ

Yeah I'll remove it. YALT may reappear in the future if I test something else. :-) --David Alves