MostlyHarmlessNano

A OneOnOne specialist, and a product of boredom (from spending eight eleven months in engineering).

Version 2.1 (2004 12 04):

• Squeezed code and added/improved features.
• The random movement is slightly less predictable, and wall avoidance is better.
• Conditional firepower (to handle NanoDeath).
• Prefers to use LinearTargeting at close range.

Version 2.0 (2004 11 27):

• Complete rewrite: now a MultiMode NanoBot!
• Randomly switches between LinearTargeting and HeadOnTargeting
• Switches between fixed-length and random-length StopAndGo movement each time it dies
• Should dominate against linear and head-on targeting, while losing horribly to PatternMatching bots.
• ELO: 1769 (6th), PL: 44-13 (2nd)

Version 1.0:

• Random movement with a timer and wall avoidance.
• HeadOnTargeting

--Rational Insanity

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Nice bot for an early atempt. A sugestion i have is to make it move a random distance instead of a set one before switching directions. Moving a random distance will make it a lot harder for most targeting strategies to hit you. You can acomplish this by utilizing the Math.random() function, which will give you a random double between 0 and 1. --andrew

Thanks for the advice, Andrew. Unfortunately, I don't think this bot will ever be sufficiently competitive with its current gun, so I'm removing it from the Rumble. I'm now using its movement in OthoMicro, which should have a more competitive gun. -- Rational Insanity