Overall I think what would suit you is a way to run the leagues a bit quicker, a 'non official' league testing method that means you don't have to leave your pc running for hours to get a result.
The 'official' league, when it is run, is designed to be as accurate as it can be in obtainig a result that is fair to all types of bots.
And more...
of course ...
I'm not suggesting anything be abandoned
for the Official Leagues!!!!!!!!!
all I want is, as the User ...
to have these options when I want to run
something other than the official league.
that is all I'm asking.
please, please, please ...
allow the User as many options as possible ...
so some of us can explore some ideas other
than developing a bot that isn't considered a
winner unless it wipes out all other bots as
quickly as possible.
I have not been ...
am not now ...
and will never be ...
interested in that approach to an evosim ...
and in fact, think continuing to move in that
direction is a big mistake.
imo, ime ...
DB shouldn't be about individual bots ...
but about developing a system made up of
an environment populated with bots which
are geared to [and which evolve towards] ...
being able to survive and coexist with other bots ...
to evolve complex relationships with one another
and their environment ...
allowing them to form that web of life that
gets it's strength from diversity and the
interdependence/interconnectedness of the
beings which inhabit it.
you know ... kinda like it is in the real world.
that's what I'm interested in exploring and
emulating.
and so ...
I would like, and deeply appreciate ...
as a User ... having as many options as possible
to run unofficial leagues and DB, towards that end.
I don't think that is asking too much ...
and I wouldn't think implimenting these options
in leagues, which still allows folks to run things 'Officially' ...
as being that difficult.
if I had access to the VB code with the latest changes ...
I might even be able to discover how to alter it to meet
my needs, if no one else is interested in having these
options.
maybe with the official 2.43 ...
I will have that option.