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kage:
--- Quote from: Jez ---(As posted in league settings by Nums), check that your costs are proportional and at 100%. unfortunately using the league settings in the latest DB version tends to set this at zero, meaning your bot won't get any reward for firing shots. Tick and untick the F1 settings option first so that it is as close to default as possible.
It's not a code fault, it's a settings fault and Eric is working on the problem as we speak.
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wait...most of the time they like don't move, they don't seem to want to eat the veggies most of the time...should I add something in so they will eat them?
Jez:
When I looked at your bot before, when the settings had been mostly sorted, they were handicapped because they didn't look for veg. That used to be ok in the leagues, but for some reason it seems to be more of a problem now.
They did seem to hunt veg ok if it got within their field of view though. (Once costs were proporitional and 100)
Either a search for veg routine or a more explosive birth routine (bots leaving parents territory) might help. When the j buddy drop is done and the settings are fixed in stone for league, when I rerun all the bots, I'll have a better idea of what strategies work best and which are a bit old hat. Certainly some of the older winning routines don't look like they will function as well as they used to.
EDIT
Also, when you tick and untick the F1 conditions; start the sim once ticked then stop it; untick F1; set costs. Otherwise F1 settings don't seem to be set properly. Just thought that might be problem.
EricL:
--- Quote from: Jez ---Also, when you tick and untick the F1 conditions; start the sim once ticked then stop it; untick F1; set costs. Otherwise F1 settings don't seem to be set properly. Just thought that might be problem.
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The F1 settings from the F1 Contest Conditions checkbox don't actually get set until the Start New button is pressed. This is so the cancel button can be pressed without changes.
kage:
--- Quote from: Jez ---When I looked at your bot before, when the settings had been mostly sorted, they were handicapped because they didn't look for veg. That used to be ok in the leagues, but for some reason it seems to be more of a problem now.
They did seem to hunt veg ok if it got within their field of view though. (Once costs were proporitional and 100)
Either a search for veg routine or a more explosive birth routine (bots leaving parents territory) might help. When the j buddy drop is done and the settings are fixed in stone for league, when I rerun all the bots, I'll have a better idea of what strategies work best and which are a bit old hat. Certainly some of the older winning routines don't look like they will function as well as they used to.
EDIT
Also, when you tick and untick the F1 conditions; start the sim once ticked then stop it; untick F1; set costs. Otherwise F1 settings don't seem to be set properly. Just thought that might be problem.
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A erm...search routine?
Jez:
Ooh, er
The search routine you are using atm is rotation, when it sees a veg it moves toward the veg.
A more extensive search routine, if you are finding your bots end up sitting still, not seeing veg and therefore not getting the energy to reproduce, might be to add some movement to your bot. Either if it's not moving to accelerate to a speed and then start rotating again while it travels across sim decelerating, or if it hasn't seen anything in X rotations to stop rotating for a cycle or two and accelerate, then start rotating while moving. (Increasing the area bots can scan for food)
Another way to increase the area that your bots cover; multiplication at start to increase number of eyes and then bots moving away from their own species. Having your own bots sitting next to each other is obviously going to reduce the area of the sim that they can scan for food.
Tieing to friends and using the ability to violently stretch and break the tie is, or was, an effective way to give your bots kinetic energy for little or no cost.
I'm just about to test the latest buddy drop, I'll probably have a better idea of what makes a succesful bot now once I have run the leagues, or at least the F1 league.
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