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Damit! My short bots suck in V3.0
« on: March 14, 2005, 11:46:28 AM »
:shoot:   Buggy V3.0

Crap!

Both my short bots were unable to survive in the new buggy version when Henk ran the short-bots league.

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« Reply #1 on: March 14, 2005, 11:52:05 AM »
It's because the limit on slime is gone.  They're making 100 slime a turn forever and ever.

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« Reply #2 on: March 14, 2005, 11:59:07 AM »
Yeah I figured that Num.

It's just that every time a new version comes out, my robots are the ones that end up sucking worse than a supercharged Dyson.

When I made V2.3 my poor little Hunter 2.16 went from top bot in the F2 and F1 leagues to a complete and utter retard that couldn't survive on its own.

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« Reply #3 on: March 14, 2005, 12:00:46 PM »
I think it is because I keep using energy saving shortcuts in my robot designs. They work great and kick ass for the version they are designed for but they can't handle change.

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« Reply #4 on: March 14, 2005, 12:03:07 PM »
My DEVINCIOs WILL BE BACK!!

You mark my words people.

You haven't seen the last of the Devincios  :evil:

Oh No, not by a long shot


BWAHAHAHAHHA  :evil:

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« Reply #5 on: March 14, 2005, 12:43:45 PM »
EVERYONE!

Stop programming tricks like that into your bots.  Just makes them more and more likely to break as the program gets larger.  Look at my (okay, 1 bot) bots, have any of them been broken by a newer version? (okay, there's only been 1 newer version, and Ymir is severely untuned in 3.0).

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« Reply #6 on: March 14, 2005, 12:52:27 PM »
Trouble is that when streamlining a robot is what makes the difference between an average bot and a world beater, whatya gonna do?

That is what gave Hunter 2.2 the edge for such a long time. It took almost 6 months before Shen managed to topple him with Umbra. Even then it took other bots using similar tricks to do it.

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