Greywhind

Greywhind has completed about 5 different bots, each improving on the last. He dreams of breaking the top 100 in 1v1 RoboRumble@Home (which he did with StrengthBee?, but that's cheating because it's not his gun). Unlike many Robocoders, he doesn't care about code size at the moment. He's more interested in finding new methods and actually making a competitive robot. So far, he has used LaserTargeting, GuessFactorTargeting, and VirtualGuns. For movement, he likes WaveSurfing the best.

My Robots:

• LineofFire: Uses movement based on avoiding areas where it has been hit (terrible) and GuessFactorTargeting segmented on distance (also terribly done).
• Dexterity?: An implementation of Bullet Dodging without EnemyWaves. It assumes you fire head on and dodges. Surprisingly successful.
• Dexterity06: Dexterity with a multiple choice gun.
• Charisma?: Dexterity06 with LineofFire's gun. Surprisingly, worse.
• Wisdom: Dexterity06 with a LaserTargeting gun.
• Constitution: Dexterity06 with a virtual gun array.
• Strength: Constitution's guns (for now), new WaveSurfing movement.

Also, a small group of Haikus that aren't online at the moment.

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Any suggestions, comments, feedback?

Just uploaded a new StrengthBee?, v. 0.6.1, with no code changes since about April '06, just to see what my ranking would be from those compared to my previous version. I'm not promising any coming back to Robocode, but I'm considering it... I'm still busy enough to wonder if I'd be smarter to just wait... Anyone actually remember me? Heh. -- Greywhind

Of course we remember you, dude :-P ... Welcome back (er, maybe). -- Voidious

Well, that was fast. Thanks - makes me feel good. Anything major happen in the last... almost a year now? (although I see you're still the king, so not much, I suppose... also, I guess I followed the news for a few months after stopping most of my coding...) -- Greywhind

Hmmm, well, me being at #1 is of course all that really matters. =) Just kidding. Some things have happened: a few more people in The2000Club, WaveSerpent and Chalk invading the top 10, Simonton has just taken the MiniBot throne with WeeksOnEnd, Kev and Simonton vying for MicroBot and NanoBot thrones, David and I cracked into The2100Club, Kawigi is around again (and ruling the TwinDuel), Paul Evans made a couple posts hinting at returning (!!!). I'm sure I'm missing plenty of stuff, but that's off the top of my head. On a personal note, I completely rewrote Dookious, much cleaner code and the gun executes about twice as fast. How's life been in the non-Robocode world? -- Voidious

That must have been quite the rewrite. Life has been good, as usual, but busy, as always. I've been working on my own (open-source) game, a top-down networked shooter (no AI involved, at this time). That's my main project. I decided to check where I was with StrengthBee? after getting a few other people interested in Robocode. One or two might show up on this wiki eventually. I noticed the 2100 club - that's quite a feat. Simonton looks to be pretty close in Mini, too... good thing I've never taken much interest in small codesize bots. I'd have a lot of catching up to do. -- Greywhind

Voidious forgot to mention i'm here, the semi-free spirit that can bearly make a bot work let along debug it. ;D --Chase-san

Well, you must be doing something right - your bot's at 26, whereas my best bot has only reached 39 (so far... the new version should go higher) with the help of CassiusClay's gun. -- Greywhind

Thats only cause it can ace RaikoMX. Its movement is kinda broken, a bot even gets over a -50 problem bot index. Its gun is okay though. --Chase-san