Also, the original term also meant killing one of your own troops, IIRC, but Doom pretty much changed the commonly accepted meaning of the term to what Martin said. (And I suppose that in a Doom deathmatch, you were always killing "one of your own", technically.) -- Voidious |
There's another big difference, it's that you can suicide by firing all your energy.
Current release is Beta 5.
Check http://membres.lycos.fr/robocode for online result and for submitting a bot (any bot accepted).
Download page http://www.geocities.com/synnalagma/dm.html
You must run the jar you downloaded and choose a directory where you have an installed robocode. Then run RDMServer.bat (the server with message and results) and RDM.bat (robocode) with bot extendings DeathMatchRobot?. What's cool is that you have real time results...
I Put the discussion in /Development since it's what it was --Synnalagma
Actually it's only for Melee battle but OneOnOne could come if some are interested in it. --Synnalagma
Well, I sure am interested in it. -- PEZ
In fact there will be 4 competitions Melee, OneOnOne, Melee with QuadDamage? (around center) and OneOnOne with QuadDamage? (around corners). Since the Wiki is entirely modulable (and the new engine also) new competition are very easy to set (the engine query the wiki about new rule set). --Synnalagma
Uh, what's "frag"? --Bayen
Frag is short for fragmentation, as in a kill with a fragmentation grenade. It is slang for a kill. -- Martin
Also, the original term also meant killing one of your own troops, IIRC, but Doom pretty much changed the commonly accepted meaning of the term to what Martin said. (And I suppose that in a Doom deathmatch, you were always killing "one of your own", technically.) -- Voidious