Messages

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Short Bots league / SB Update

« on: January 25, 2006, 10:16:52 AM »

New bot in this update is UNA by elite. It's a truly amazing bot that smashed its way through the lines and came out as the new SB number one. Well done Elite!

As I've decided to limit the SB league to 25 places, two of my own bots (Broekhuizen and Schoonmaker) have been eliminated from the SB league. Broekhuizen was the first bot to be entered in the SB league.  -_-

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Tips and Tricks / Conditionless Bots

« on: January 25, 2006, 10:06:47 AM »

I've honestly gotten away from combat bots lately, maybe with new challengers I'll get back in the game :)

I think you have :) I just ran the SB league and UNA came out on top  :)  :rolleyes:

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Suggestions / Possible new Abstract Feeding Concept

« on: January 23, 2006, 02:53:21 PM »

Idea: give bots the ability to change the angle at which the 'feeding shot' is shot back, at a cost. The bigger the alteration, the bigger the cost to be paid.

for example: bot X gives an extra 5 degrees to a returning feeding shot, thus making feeding bot X more difficult.

The costs of such alterations would be exponentially bigger as the angle gets altered more.

What'ya think?

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Bot Tavern / Does this count as an MB?

« on: January 23, 2006, 02:39:45 PM »

I reckon a well-programmed bot using vegs as batteries would indeed be a major improvement over current bots, because it would essentially have an indefinite  energysource on-board.  ^_^  :idea:

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Off Topic / 2.5 piccy

« on: January 16, 2006, 10:14:21 AM »

Nice! :)

BTW where have all the buttons gone?

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Off Topic / Attack method

« on: January 12, 2006, 02:20:51 PM »

I like the second option best. IMO mouseclicking is way to passive for an actionRPG

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Off Topic / This is awesome

« on: January 11, 2006, 10:05:34 AM »

Yeah I was shocked to hear that, too! ;)

(BTW: I bet Bush was shocked as well when he heard it's just the US he's president of ;) )

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Off Topic / This is awesome

« on: January 10, 2006, 10:28:59 AM »

What a laugh! :D Good thing I don't live in the US ;)

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Off Topic / Happy B'Day to LemonLime

« on: January 05, 2006, 04:12:08 PM »

Happy birthday! (even though it was yesterday ;) )

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Off Topic / Happy Newyear everyone!

« on: January 01, 2006, 08:03:28 AM »

Happy 2006 everyone!  :party:  :clap:

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Off Topic / Merry Christmas!

« on: December 26, 2005, 09:17:11 AM »

Blessed Xmas everyone!  :D  :boing:

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DNA - General / Shell question

« on: December 24, 2005, 03:52:34 AM »

There's a small error in the gene, which (I think) stops it from functioning:

cond
*.shell < 100
start
10 .mkshell store
stop

should be:

cond
*.shell 100 <
start
10 .mkshell store
stop

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Off Topic / Come back, come back

« on: December 15, 2005, 10:49:52 AM »

maybe henk can design a new ballet bot and to a nutcracker sim?

OOH! A new challenge.

Can anyone design a bot that will dance in a predefined and choreographed way?

That would be cool  B)

That's the worst idea I've heard in ages... I'll try it out!  :)

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Off Topic / Come back, come back

« on: December 13, 2005, 12:42:38 PM »

Well it has been two years since I joined the DB community (Yay memories!), and I don't intend to leave, either... ^_^

Just waiting for some next versions to be released :)

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DNA - General / help

« on: December 09, 2005, 05:50:04 AM »

Yes it does work with me... but there are two 'errors' in it's DNA. (needn't be bad, but does not help with your goal with this bot)

• Child-bots that are born from a fixed-to-the-spot parent are fixed also, even though they don't have a veggie to feed on.
• Bots that tie to each other don't sever their ties. this is especially the case with parents/children connections. Maybe you could build in a gene that checks whether the bot is tied to anotherbot of it's species, and then delete that tie