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== FeederOfRavens ==
FeederOfRavens, a 'kenning' for a warrior, a combination of [[Pugilist]] style WaveSurfing and a [[Moebius]] style pattern matching gun.

<pre>teaser:
1st: pez.mini.Pugilist 2.0.9 3147 1250 250 1452 194 0 0 25 25 0
2nd: wiki.mini.FeederOfRavens 2.0 3069 1250 250 1401 167 0 0 25 25 0
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History 
 * FeederOfRavens v1.0: 
 Pugilist 2.0.9 WaveSurfing and a Fenrir PM-gun.

* FeederOfRavens v2.0 (ranking 1922.7 after 613 battles): 
 Pugilist 2.0.9 WaveSurfing and a Moebius 2.0 PM-gun.

* FeederOfRavens version:sm: 
 Pugilist 2.0.9 WaveSurfing and a Smoke PM-gun.
 download it here: http://iiley.w169.west263.cn/opus/wiki.mini.FeederOfRavens_sm.jar

Comparisons are always nice:

* 2.0 - http://pezius.com/rumble/servlet/RatingDetailsComparison?game=roborumble&name1=wiki.mini.FeederOfRavens%202.0&name2=pez.mini.Pugilist%202.0.9
* sm - http://pezius.com/rumble/servlet/RatingDetailsComparison?game=roborumble&name1=wiki.mini.FeederOfRavens%20sm&name2=pez.mini.Pugilist%202.0.9
-- [[PEZ]]

i think this comparison with Pugilist shows how strong GF-guns are, compared with the simpler PM-guns, in the current RoboRumble. The ranking of FeederOfRavens v2.0 is 1922.7, the ranking of Pugilist is 2003.38 (both are mini). 
I find the results of FeederOfRavens against the WaveSurfers a bit dissapointing. I tried this combination of Pugilist WaveSurfing and a Moebius PM-gun because the actual score of many bots with a PM-gun is so much higher than the expected score, often something like 16%. But the comparison shows that the results of the GF-gun of Pugilist are always equal to or better than those of the PM-gun. --[[Loki]]

Interesting idea! Why don't you try a better PM gun? The nano-sized ones sacrifice a lot of accuracy to be as small as possible. --[[David Alves]]

I'll have to disagree about this PM/GF comparisson... No doubts that P's GF gun is a very strong gun (and CC's GF gun is one of the more strongest guns in Rumble - if not THE strongest). All my bots use [[PM]] guns, [[Okami]] for example, is a broken-[[WaveSurfer]] with a [[PM]] (althought not a SIMPLE [[PM]]) gun (very similar to [[SS]]'s gun), and is currently a tie with FeederOfRavens. 
The problem with your comparisson, is that you are comparing one of the best [[GF]] guns with simple [[PM]]... That comparisson would be better if you mount in FeederOfRavens [[ABC]]'s [[PM]] gun, witch in my humble opinion is THE strongest [[PM]] gun in rumble. -- [[Axe]]

Hi, Loki, i am wondering how about [[Smoke]] or [[Cigaret]] PM-Gun, I know many Surfers did not very good against them, I don't know is their PM-Gun did good against surfers or the old Cigaret-Movement did good against GF Guns. I will have a little test. Wait...  -- [[iiley]]

David, Axe, you are both right that the PM-gun i used is too simple for a real comparison. What i didn't mentioned, but though was important is that FeederOfRavens also was a mini. I think a better conclusion is that within the code-limits the GF-gun is so much more powerfull. 
I still wonder why many robots with a PM-gun score relatively high against WaveSurfers (or absolutely in some cases like [[Shadow]]), and FeederOfRavens just scores as expected. A test with a 'real' PM-gun is worthwhile.

Iiley, i think your PM-guns are strong indeed, but i am not clever enough to understand them... So if you manage to put them into a Puglist (mini) i am certainly curoius how it performs. --[[Loki]]

I just tested the last version of [[Pugilist]],[[Smoke]] and [[Cigaret]] vs CassiusClay.Here are the data of 100 rounds:

|bot            |	bullet hits|bullet damage score
|[[Pugilist]]   |        305        |    3246           
|[[Smoke]]      |        205        |    3425           
|[[Cigaret]]    |        226        |    3831

-- [[iiley]]

Iiley, are these results against a non-shooting CC? --[[Loki]]

@[[Loki]]: Given these boundaries, i understand u... I ain't certainly the right person to talk about minis... My bots are Godzilla Bots (Giga or TeraBots) :)... 
But also i forgot to mention that my PM guns aren't strict PM, they use MultipleChoice (i think that [[ABC]]'s guns also, since that feature in my gun was inspired by [[ABC]]). This make these guns more to a rude GF gun feeded by a PM... 
@[[Iiley]]: That experiment with [[Cigaret]] sounds interesting, since most of your bots are a nightmare to be beaten (especially to me) -- [[Axe]]

[[Iiley]], [[Axe]], are your guns easily pluggable? and are you willing to put it into this or another Pugilist variation? Then we just ignore the code limit and test a GF-gun against a 'real' PM-gun. --[[Loki]]

I think the [[Cigaret]] gun can fit together with [[Pugilist]] movement in a mini. I should be able to shrink P's movement by some 100+ bytes without losing functionality or too much readability if it should prove necessary. However, in a first try we needn't make it a mini. One can just remove the gun from P and the movement from C and dispatch the scanned event like CassiusClay does. Easy and should only take a few minutes of work. Also it would be very interesting to try make C's gun shoot only power 1.9 bullets... -- [[PEZ]]

Far from be "easily pluggable"... My code is a place that not even Theseus would dare to enter... But i could make a try (my problem is that i am VERY short of time these days)... -- [[Axe]]

Hey, I thought you were Theseus incarnated? =) -- [[PEZ]]

Thank your for the right boundaries [[Axe]] ;}, I dont know is that means the [[Cigaret]] and [[Smoke]] PM gun did better against CC, Ok i maybe should have a try to see the truth, I will manage to put [[Smoke]] or [[Cigaret]] gun into Puglist to be the next version of FeederOfRavens, I only can do it tomorrow, I must be leaving now, our office's guards will go to take me off if i dont leave after 23:00 ;]. And it maybe a very slow bot then.:{  -- [[iiley]]

Yeah. P's slow movement paired with C's slow gun. But it's a cool experiment! -- [[PEZ]]

At least the FoR's placing in the mini ranking table provides an argument in the eternal question of MovementOrTargeting. =) -- [[PEZ]]

This is my testing result:
<pre>
1st: wiki.mini.FeederOfRavens sm	3815	1350	270	1943	252	0	0	29	21	0
2nd: pez.mini.Pugilist 2.0.9	 3093	1050	210	1643	190	0	0	25	27	0

1st: wiki.mini.FeederOfRavens sm	3364	1100	220	1775	269	0	0	22	13	0
2nd: abc.tron3.Tron 3.11	 2176	650	130	1283	113	0	0	14	22	0
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-- [[iiley]]

Nice iiley, this seems to be a serious contender! 
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20 wiki.mini.FeederOfRavens 2.0 1918.06 details graph 1317 22-10-2004:10:53 
21 wiki.mini.FeederOfRavens sm 1908.44 details graph 43 22-10-2004:11:33 
</pre> and a momentum of +233 --[[Loki]]

Seems that FeederOfRavens sm can not climb after 1964 score, showing that Pugilist's GF gun is greater than Smoke's PM gun against most robots.  -- [[iiley]]

It's at 1972 after only 154 battles, so on average it has only met half of the total number of opponents. I believe in this version, give it some time --[[Loki]]

Too early to tell yes. But I would be surprised if Smoke can smoke Pugilist's punch anyway. P has a strong gun for a mini. Almost as strong as CassiusClay/Bee. -- [[PEZ]]

I just have seen the Pugilist in [[TargetingChallenge]], I don't need to say anything, the result of it showing that it's best mini gun. Smoke or other mini/micro gun cannot get a nearest score.  -- [[iiley]]

=) I think it's more or less a tie between [[Raiko]] and [[Pugilist]] in the TC. And [[Raiko]] has an edge in the RRGunChallenge. However FoR wasn't a test  of [[Pugilist]]'s or [[Smoke]]'s gun anyway. It was a test to see if with a PatternMatching gun [[Pugilist]]'s surfing could bring home some WaveSurfer heads. Which it could using Smoke's gun. Yay!

But lets wait a while with the next test (which is using [[Cigaret]]'s gun firing power 1.9 I would suggest.). Too many SlowBots updated at the moment. It takes forever to get the results. (I ran a 1000 round [[TGrapher]] session minimized. It ran in 5 (five) fps while SilverSurfer, PulsarMax or FoR was being run by the RR@H client! When I killed the client the TGrapher session ran in 780 fps...)

-- [[PEZ]]

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