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Numsgil:
The advantages? Well, it sounds cool, I guess. The work's already been done. All we need is a FTP server. Bots seems excited by the idea at least, so I thought I'd give it a try.
I'm still looking for some kind of free FTP hosting place. Most don't want sites that act primarily as storage.
Maybe we could set up a sub domain on an official DB site. My sister gave me a sub domain on her site last november, with my own FTP password and stuff. It isn't a stretch to see that working here.
Botsareus:
"Feline Touch" not "Feline Soft" , memory.....
Numsgil:
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Again, what are you referring to?
Numsgil:
Here are the plans I've found for a website. I vote godaddy.com.
This one is $35 a year counting the name registration It's tiny. Not worth the money in my opinion.
Go daddy is 3.16 a month if you sign up for the year, 3.95 otherwise. That's 37.92 for the year. Then another $9 for the name registration. That's $46.87 total.see here.
Then there's this one. Not a whole lot cheaper than Go daddy, and offers a little less. $35.88. I can't tell if it offers the name registration as part of the cost or not (it seems like it though).
I'm willing to throw in $10. Maybe a little more, depending.
shvarz:
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I certainly appreciate the "coolness factor" of things. Still, what kind of functionality would you like? An extended F1 league with bots simultaneously coming from different computers?
Here is what I think: Say I want to run an evolution sim. I pick conditions, pick a starting bot and run it. I am looking at ~100 bots on the screen at a given time (if things go well). Pretty small number for evolution. Now, say I have a feature, where the program saves a random bot to a folder every 1000 cycles or so and then loads a random bot from that folder. Say I have a pool of 1000 bots there. This means essentially that even though I have 100 bots on the screen at any given time, my total population is actually 10 times bigger. It is as if these bots walked out of the screen for a while and then came back. Makes sense? This will make evolution go much smoother , but it will take longer. One way to speed it up is to have many people run the same exact simulation on their computers.
Now let's say we have 10 people each running the same simulation in parallel in a way I described above. And from time to time we swap half of bots from our caches with each other. This makes our total population... 10,000 bots! They are not all simulated at the same time, but all of them get a chance to run. This would allow amazing evolution sims.
So here is a good legitimate need for bot-sharing. But it does not require a centralized server. It can all be done on person-to-person basis.
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