The F1 League lives again!

[Peter]

Well, ok, it wasn't much of a mistake, here's the details:
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Old Laptop              New PC
Faulty Nec Versa E660($200)  Secondhand Custom Built($900)
2.2Ghz P4M                 Athlon X64 4400+ (Dual core 2.2Ghz)
768mb ram                 2gb ram
120GB hdd                320gb sata hdd
DVD reader                DVD writer
floppy drive                 floppy drive (surprisingly)
ATI 340m(128mb)              ATI X800GTO2 (256mb)
Builtin LCD 1024x768         19" Widescreen LCD 1440x900
XP Home SP1               XP Pro SP2
100W Power usage        500W power supplyBoth have dual monitor support (not that useful, but can be handy)
My Laptop has a motherboard fault that causes it to randomly freeze/reboot.

Probably could have got better for $900, but I bought it off a guy I know, and it does have quite the array of neon lights and fancy fan controls

Nice computer, I gues you mean new zealand  dollars. So nobody else at the world would have a clue if 900$ would be expensive, the only thing I can say it is probably lower in value then the US$ or the euro. But, floppy drive. I does have USB right  ,right.
Anyway, SP3 is already out some time, you could update.

Blasted through quite a lot of the bots, my new PC is faster than I thought. Goes to show AMD make better CPUs I suppose.

My intel quadcore beats the crap out of you amd dualcore, I am sure.  
Overal I think AMD and intel don't differ that much anyway.

I wonder what the final results will be. Go excalibur, go.

[Commander Keen]

8 USB ports on my PC, 4 on my laptop. All high-speed thankfully.

$900 NZ is...
$595 US
330 Pounds
415 Euros
Here's a currency converter if you live in some other country  

Well, Excalibur's been knocked off the top, and a couple of other bots have moved about. I've completed running all the bots already on the league, now I've just got to run all the F2 bots made since the last time the league was done. And there isn't as many as I thought, so it won't be long...

[Numsgil]

Ah, I thought you were talking about USD at first.  Sounded like you'd been ripped off   But ~$600 sounds about right.

You're using the default league settings without toying with that instawin button, right?   When you're done I'll give you mod privileges for the leagues and you can update the F2 (F2, right?) standings.

[Peter]

Ah, I thought you were talking about USD at first.  Sounded like you'd been ripped off   But ~$600 sounds about right.

Knowing he would be ripped off and not even telling him.  

Why do that much countrys use a coin-type that has a name dollar inside it?, gets confusing.

[Numsgil]

It's 'cause they all want to be a strong as the USD.  ( that's just me being jingoistic)

[Commander Keen]

New Zealand used to use pounds, shillings, and pence once. I'm glad they don't now!  

You're using the default league settings without toying with that instawin button, right?   When you're done I'll give you mod privileges for the leagues and you can update the F2 (F2, right?) standings.

Yes, I have resisted the temptation to use the instawin button. Old Man Bucket vs. Brevis will likely test my patience, but I'll probably run Brevis while I'm elsewhere...

The only annoyance is that my PC is in my bedroom, so I can't leave it on overnight (9+ fans, on high...) but so far no league match has taken over 12 hours to complete

[Peter]

New Zealand used to use pounds, shillings, and pence once. I'm glad they don't now!  

New zealand pounds or english pounds.

[Commander Keen]

Not entirely sure actually, but I do know that New Zealand was a British Colony for a long time, so it was probably British Pounds. Unlike America, we didn't stage protests or complain about Britain doing whatever. In 26 September 1907 New Zealand became a dominion, meaning we were essentially independent but recognised the Queen as head of state or whatever. In 1931 the British told all their colonies they could pass the Statute of Westminster at any time and declare independence, and in 25 November 1947 New Zealand finally got around to declaring itself independent.

Ok, well that's the history lesson for today  

Also when I got my new PC the guy chucked in a few games including Call of Duty 4, which was cool, although admittedly it's not a lot of good on dialup internet.

[Moonfisher]

1-Etch MK II
2-Excalibur
3-Cadillus
4-Blue on Blue
5-Bubbles
6-Martian Tank 3
7-Proeliator Glyphus
8-Animal Supremus
9-Animal Minimaxis 3
10-Destinatus Preliator/Dominator Invincibalis
12-Carnatus Orbis/Duplo Simpleboticus
14-Oculus Infinitus
15-Guardian 0.9
16-James 4
17-HDV 4
18-Anon Terifica 2
19-Kyushu
20-Assimilator

As you can tell, the heavyweights are yet to come.

Isn't EtchII a tie feeder ? F2 is no tie feeding and no viruses... pretty sure EtchII is F1...

[Commander Keen]

That's the F1 results.

I'm doing the F2 league at the moment.

You'll be pleased to hear that currently Spinner is on top of the F2 league

[Moonfisher]

Sweet
I also have a new F1 contester called Fruit Flies... it beats Etch II
It's 6 very simple genes, nothing advanced about it, but it beats everything I tryed it on so far
It can take a while to finish off some oponents though, it's a very weak fighter but it makes up for it in numbers.
I had to stop reproduction at 1000 bots or the fights always end up freezing...
It could probably have some more attack options in order to finish the fights a lot faster, but I like the way a few small simple genes can do so much damage...

[Peter]

That's the F1 results.

I'm doing the F2 league at the moment.

You'll be pleased to hear that currently Spinner is on top of the F2 league

No that isn't ccomplete F1 there are missing  pretty lot of bots.

[Peter]

That's the F1 results.

I'm doing the F2 league at the moment.

You'll be pleased to hear that currently Spinner is on top of the F2 league

Uhm, wait spinner. Isn't that a F1-bot. As a minor weapon it does use tie attacks and suck the enemy empty with it. I don't know if it uses any other powerful F1-stuff. Atleast the spinner in my bot-directory is doing this.

Overall I think the tie-sucking is in the case of spinner not a definite powerful weapon, against some bots I could see the extra power. As not all F2-bots have sucking defence.

I looked up the spinner from the beastery, if this is the same you used, it is sucking nrg.
After looking inside the genes I see the problem.

This gene carries under here carries the actual nrg-sucking, in further dna, .deltie is set at zero and ties are formed to irritate enemys. Those ties are used here to suck the enemy.

I would say lookup this gene and delete it, then the bot is F2-worthy.
I gues your earlier results with it are also a little vilty.

'Not sure counter leeching is legal for F2
'If it isn't, then use the other tie value...
cond
*.numties 0 >
*.robage 1 >
*.tiepres 0 >
start
*.tiepres .tienum store
.tieval .tieloc store
31000 .tieval store
'0 .tieval store '-- This can be safer, helps against EtchII, but only delay's the inevitable.
*.tiepres .deltie store
stop

And further, have you checked every bot if it is really an F2-bot. Or did you just run every bot that had an F2 tag on it. There could be more F2-bots that really are F1-bots.

[Numsgil]

I don't think he should have to double check that a bot that says it's F2 is F2.  That would be a huge pain.  But if it's F1 pretending to be F2 that's not fair.  Did Moonfisher post recently?  Maybe we can just ask him.

[Peter]

I don't think he should have to double check that a bot that says it's F2 is F2.  That would be a huge pain.  But if it's F1 pretending to be F2 that's not fair.  Did Moonfisher post recently?  Maybe we can just ask him.

Chances are this was accidentily. At least he then forgot the check the bot properly. As far I see only one gene has to be removed to get in F2.