Decado

Author

Skilgannon

Extends

AdvancedRobot

Description

Decado (Micro): a swordsman who joined a militant temple of 30 other warrior priests.

Decado was the evolution of Waylander. I had the idea that perhaps looking for seperate patterns in the velocity and angular velocity would make it learn faster, but there was an unexpected side effect: when there are no patterns in the angular velocity (eg. perpendicular movement) it still finds patterns in the movement. I had discovered the ultimate wavesurfer killer. After adding the MusashiTrick it was way over codesize, so I went about shrinking, and before I knew it I was 15 bytes below the limit. So I added in a 'favorite' distance of 500 pixels, which resulted in 3rd place in the MicroRumble??. I may try a stop-and-go movement (inspired by Thorn), but that is not the priority as I will now be working on a minibot.

Edit: StopAndGo has been added (since 0.2), replacing the Musashi Trick. It paid off, and got me to 3rd in the MicroRumble?.

What's special about it?

My pattern matcher, which matches only on velocity but keeps tabs on angular velocity as well.

Great, I want to try it. Where can I download it?

jk.micro.Decado : http://www.robocoderepository.com/BotDetail.jsp?id=3314

How competitive is it?

3rd in MicroRumble?, with a rating of 1924. 10th in MiniRumble?

How does it move?

StopAndGo, which switches to RandomMovement if it loses a match in the first 5 rounds