Well, it's very exciting if you ask me. The two by far greatest inventions in robocoding. Lots and lots of room for inventions and ideas within those areas. At least pattern matching isn't all that more exciting compared to guess factor stats. But I'm glad you're ready to try think completely new. That can bring forward great stuff. It has before. I still think you should enter your bot into the RR. -- PEZ |
Well, it's very exciting if you ask me. The two by far greatest inventions in robocoding. Lots and lots of room for inventions and ideas within those areas. At least pattern matching isn't all that more exciting compared to guess factor stats. But I'm glad you're ready to try think completely new. That can bring forward great stuff. It has before. I still think you should enter your bot into the RR. -- PEZ Total Annihilation rules! :) It's great to see someone trying to be different, I just hope you don't give up easily, it'll be very hard to come up with something that performs better than (or close to) GF/PM/WaveSurfing?. Understanding exactly how they work doesn't hurt, though. Know your enemy... ;) -- ABC |
Since it's a mega-monster-sized bot, I have some/various tweaks/complications like "floating toward the opposite end of the wall" against pure wall-hugging bots (so the target's escape area is narrower for my incoming shots) and actually waiting for the "time since last incoming bullet" to exceeded a time limit before moving in for the ram-death bonus-humiliation victory. I had been ramming straight into the target's last few bullets. (ouch! not a good plan.)
I only started on the Robocode because my school scheduled and then canceled two(2) tournaments in the last few months. These so called peers of mine are really just a bunch of feeble worthless lazy wimps! (but don't quote me.)
I might add a tweak to support "super wide" battlefields, just because that's silly and it should be an easy modification.
Why don't you add this bot to the RoboRumble@Home? That will give you feedback that probably can guide you very well on what to focus on next. If I where you I would throw the VG out the window and replace it with a GuessFactorTargeting gun instead. Since you already collect virtual stats you have most of the work for a GF gun done. -- PEZ
I don't want to spend time building a bot that moves/shoots exactly the same as all the super bots. (guessfactors plus wave surfing, how exciting is that?) Segmenting my virtualhits by distance didn't seem to make any difference. I spent a Huge amount of effort trying to get pattern movement/matching to work. I'm going to "sit and think" for a while on some new/crazy movement ideas, and meanwhile be busy with the fall semester. -- tfh2
Well, it's very exciting if you ask me. The two by far greatest inventions in robocoding. Lots and lots of room for inventions and ideas within those areas. At least pattern matching isn't all that more exciting compared to guess factor stats. But I'm glad you're ready to try think completely new. That can bring forward great stuff. It has before. I still think you should enter your bot into the RR. -- PEZ
Total Annihilation rules! :) It's great to see someone trying to be different, I just hope you don't give up easily, it'll be very hard to come up with something that performs better than (or close to) GF/PM/WaveSurfing?. Understanding exactly how they work doesn't hurt, though. Know your enemy... ;) -- ABC