XBot

XBot, by Qohnil.

What's new?

• Nothing, I guess, since 2002. ;)

What's special about it?

• It should be one of the earliest attempts at NeuralTargeting. Didn't work very well though due to learning to slowly and taking too much computation time.

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

http://www.robocoderepository.com/BotDetail.jsp?id=354

How competitive is it?

Probably not competitive at all anymore. It was somewhat competitive in its own time though...

How does it move?

Honestly, I don't know anymore. It tried to avoid virtual bullets, I guess. Look it up yourself! :)

How does it fire?

It is using NeuralTargeting.

How does it dodge bullets?

Sorry, I don't know any details anymore.

How does the melee strategy differ from one-on-one strategy?

I think I didn't do special melee stuff in there.

What does it save between rounds and matches?

Afaik, network weights.

Where did you get the name?

"X" for experimental.

Can I use your code?

Go ahead, it's GPL''ed (source included in the jar file.

What's next for your robot?

Nothing, I'm afraid. It's long out of development.

What other robot(s) is it based on?

It's not based on any other robots.

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Comments, questions, feedback:

Hi, i've tryed your bot but it still get the exception: You cannot take action inside Condition.test(). What version of robocode have you used? -- asdasd

Hey asdasd, XBot is very old. Don't ask me about the exact robocode version it worked with. But it was definitely pre-1.0.7 (the opensourcing). So it may well be that it doesn't work anymore today. Also, XBot has probably never been a glowing example of clean coding. ;) - And without the debug drawing, it was extremely difficult to debug it, too... -- Qohnil

i've tested xbot with the older version of robocode found on sourceforge but the problem still remain.. but i finded other example using NN, thank for the fast answer -- asdasd