W6 a verry strong multibot

[peterb]

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'                             Super multibot codename w6.txt
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' w6 a deadly experiment it is still a code name
' A genome which uses some advanced strategies
' It is deadly, so wear protected clothing all times.
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' Still the bot lacks complex head construction or good eyes.
' Doesnt move optimal, but it shoots like a goalkeeper
' Independant of its travel direction it aims at enemies who are in range
' It can even attack multiple enemies at once, as if it feels them nearby.
' In fact it might not even turn his head (heading) to kill you..
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' It does use poison, sometimes venom, but no tie feeding on others
' Also it doesnt use viruses, so its a fairly fair.
' there will become a w7 also later... even more deadly.
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' It has a special form of birth control to deal with various
' enemies, for example it has a high and slow birth rate.
' usualy it breaths slowly growing big while other multiply
' While they multiply it invests in becoming powerfull
' But that is depending on its environments population ratio.
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' It can form bigberta supperkillers, who will be not fast
' Dough they're good in reproducing. And seeding the environment
' Overall its more a tactical bot, as it uses various tactics
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' It has a huge genome, for its tactics
' As I wanted its population to be more adaptive.
' Now its verry dependant on its environment.
' in some situations you'll see big berta's multibots
' Other times you'll rarely see them team together.
' Rarely it fires a tie to a algea an error, its not a batery bot (bad aiming).
' It depends much on population size, how it will look like
' A big bot connected killer swarm
' or hundreds of small ones who connect less often.
' And only a few might re-populate and still win the battle.
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' I wanted to defeat snakebot (thats the best looking bot I think)
' Then I tried it with other bots
' And I noticed it does defeat many other multi bots (or most ??)
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' So pleace note your multibot if it outperforms w6.
' (also include your enviroment settings ...  field size, number of algeys friction method etc)
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' by Peterb

[Ta-183]

It doesn't seem to do much. It isn't forming any MB's, and all I've really seen is good (impeccable, really) and a good retreat function.

[peterb]

Keep in mi nd this bot reacts on its environment verrry much. (main design idea)
It can take a while before it forms multibots.
I wont start straight forming multibots, its a bit more complex.
It makes use of multibot tactics, bigberta tactics and spreading.

I've also seen kind of bigberta's connected batteling seasnake.

If you see it retreating, yes it can do this, sometimes that is better tactics.
As it monitors its own population comparred to the global population

The idea behind of it was that I liked to  keep in mind the global energy reservouir.
Be stronger then your opponent, by not becomming food for it, so dont become small free food.
A method to become like that is not to multiply more then your opponent.

I added below picture fighting against TierMBt2(MB)(Endy) here in multibot mode.
I'm not sure which bot will be stronger dough.
Tier2MBt is a strong cancerous spreading bot, w6 isnt like that, but it did win from other multibots close to cancerous (hexagon), but this one is kind of special I'm still running it.
Dough it is at 0.2 cycles now..

[Ta-183]

Well, in all truth, I really hadn't thoroughly tested it. I had only pitted it against seasnake 1.0 in a small arena. Needless to say, it slowed to a crawl.


EDIT: I pitted it against Saber, and it was interesting to see it change strategies to fight off the swarms of sabers and infected alga.

[peterb]

I just have the end result of the battle between TierMBt2(MB)(Endy).txt  and  w6.txt
An intresting outcome, after about 6 hours of emulation, w6 lost the battle, I was sleeping when it happened.
I had put in some more multi bots in the playground just wondering who would survive
But only tierMBt2 seamed to become a long term battle.

In the morning I looked at the remaining population of TierMBt2, I had assumed that bot would win
As it uses a dirty trick to circle around a target until the target has lost all its energy by shooting.
While it uses cancerous ties so the playground gets filled up and not easy to move around.

But it ended a bit differently somehow only 5 bots survived, thats a bit strange...??  since it was a  cancerous bot.
However the poison of w6 must have had his effect, the remaining 5 couldnt aim their shootings.
One never fired anymore, and 3 of them shooted all the time in 4 directions, standing still.
While another one just walked into vegies and didnt do anything with them.
And altough in berta in size, all of them didnt seam to reproduce anymore.

I can only gues the poison must have made itss population attack itself.
Since the remaining 5 bots where not near vegies or eating from it, I pulled the power out of the simulation.
Those bots would have died, they where sick, it was only a matter of time.
The population graph showed that the big starvation started at the same time w6 population died out.
So maybe for a while they where also a bit depending on each other.

Well concluding it isnt easy to survive this bot

(I had put in multiple bots in the playground seize 3 and 30 vegies)

[Endy]

That's pretty funny, I wouldn't have thought it would last long at all considering its age.  

That "dirty trick" is something of an accident, it was originally only designed to show how bots could rotate independently while remaining in an MB. Later changes prevented that, so now it just works really strange.

What did you mean by cancerous? All it should do is shot feed.

Odd, tried just those two together and your bot won hands down.

Edit:

Made a modified vers with: 100 .sharenrg *.multi mult store

That seemed to do the trick and let TierMBt2 win.

[bacillus]

It's a very good bot, but only about 1% of bots form ties, and those ties don't last long.

[Botsareus]

Sounded cool, so I tested it. Sorry, does not behave like MB at all. Moving to untagged.