Moron by Martin Alan PedersenProfile:I was not around when ad.last.Bottom was created, but it was obviously intended to be the absolute worst performer in the Robo Rumble. That seemed like a good challenge. I think I outdid him. Performance:After 208 battles pedersen.Moron v1.0 is at 101.09, compared to ad.last.Bottom at 149.18. Moron v2.0 finally ousted SittingDuck for last place in the melee rumble, and brought new depths to the duelist ranking.
Targeting:Duels: Initially aims dead on until it scores a total of three hits. Afterward, in aims in the opposite direction for the rest of the match. Movement:Duels: Closes distance with opponent but does not ram, allowing increased chance of landing initial bullets. Afterward, he remains still for the remainder of the match. Scanning:Moron uses Ugluk's radar systems. Energy Management:Duels: Initially fires 0.1 power bullets until minimum score is attained. Then fires 3.0 power bullets for rest of the match. No real energy management. Debugging, Statistics, and PersistenceMoron performes no file i/o in order to reduce the chance of throwing an exception due to the cannon caches bug. Archnemeses / White WhalesMoron's chief rivals are ad.last.Bottom and sample.SittingDuck. Comments, questions, feedback: I would expect that scoring 1-6000 (ad.last.Bottom) is far worse than scoring 3-3000 (Moron), but it does not seem to matter. What counts is that Moron does lose, or at least not win, against bots that get disabled or can not hit a SittingDuck. Congratulations with this bot that fully forfills its purpose! -- GrubbmGait Yeah, I think beyond a 1/1000 ratio it's moot. I am seeing a lot of 0.0 scores so perhaps it is rounding down if lower than 1/2000 or so. One thing for certain is that my score wouldn't be in the negatives without the help of ad.last.Bottom scoring 99.9% against me. I am a bit disappointed that I wasn't able to beat SittingDuck by making myself more of a target. I guess Moron is harder to hit in melee since he keeps chasing people who try to get away. -- Martin Success! It took a while for the melee rumble numbers to settle, but Moron has taken the crown of worst melee bot. -- Martin Hmm...If Moron purposely disables himself, will that battle count? --Starrynte Nope, if a score turns out to be xxxx to zero, that battle does NOT count. When running RR@Home, sometimes you see such a score between wavesurfers and HOT-bots, but a re-run of the match will eventually give a valid result. So your participant (Wors(t)(e)RobotEver?) will not get a ranking, luckily you made a typo when submitting it. -- GrubbmGait Actually, this fact is part of what makes Moron so impressive. If getting a low rating were as simple as getting a zero score, it would be easy, but Moron does its best to get a super low non-zero score against everyone! =) -- Voidious |
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