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Bot Tavern / F3 league

« on: October 02, 2008, 12:57:34 AM »

I'm liking F3. None of those annoying instakills...

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Multi-Bots / Tribolisv0.2

« on: October 01, 2008, 08:07:59 PM »

I don't know if this is particularly useful:

Code: [Select]

'If foreign tie is found, feed off parasite
cond
*.tin1 *.tout1 !=
start
-1 .tieloc store
-1000 .tieval store
stop
Against older bots made before DB had tin/tout, it will work but it is trivial to add tin/out chameleon genes that could fool this. Plus if you take it out it will be F2 legal...

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Off Topic / so... we meet again

« on: October 01, 2008, 08:06:24 PM »

If you want to aim high, then Spinner is on top of the ladder... Although I'm working on a bot to topple it off, still only got a 33% win rate...

Excalibur is very much a good bot to beat, very version resiliant.

One Man Bucket is also quite potent, it's stopped a fair few bots from going up further in the league. I think that Sea Snake could have got a lot further if One Man Bucket wasn't in the way...

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Bot Tavern / F3 league

« on: October 01, 2008, 05:38:15 AM »

F3 could potentially be very interesting, as then spreading algorithms and a good eye system would become really important, as shell and poison give bots time to react. If they lost these defenses, then it would be more important than ever for bots to react faster.

I think small bots could do well in F3 because larger bots won't have the benefit of having heaps of shell and poison. Small bots could more easily overwhelm a large bot...

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Bot Tavern / F3 league

« on: September 26, 2008, 03:42:07 AM »

A newbie league sounds good to me. I'm not so sure about having a league with 100 places, it would be fine to add new bots one at a time but if you wanted to rerun the entire league it could take some time...  

Possibly there could be an F3 league, with no ties, no viruses, no venom, no instakills, no info shots, and all bots must be adequately commented to be readable by new players. That way there'd just be nice simple bots with poison and shell. Or maybe even cut those and just have straight combat/dogfighting.

It would be cool to have a mega-league where there is one huge map and a few veggies, and all the bots in the league are dumped in all at once, and their ranking is determined by how long they last. It would rely on chance to a degree, but it would be diffrent, and you could possibly code diffrent species to cooperate...

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Bot Tavern / The F1 League lives again!

« on: September 26, 2008, 02:52:06 AM »

The new bots have been assimilated(except for Lovebot...):

#F2
1 - Spinner_v1.51(F2)(Moonfisher)26-09-08
2 - ThisnThat1.01(F2)(Peksa)12.05.08
3 - Multiply4(F1)(F2)(Peter)19-12-07
4 - Excalibur 1.12 (F2)(Light)-06.03.07
5 - Martian Tank 3 (F2)(Martian)-06.07.2007
6 - Excalibur (F2)(Light)-26.02.05
7 - Republican Bee (F2)(Commander Keen)
8 - Bubbles (F2)(Jez)-21.08.06
9 - Blue on blue (F2)(Jez)-05.08.06
10- Martian Tank 2 (F2)(Martian)-04.07.2007
11- Markus Volithistralis2 (F2)(Ark)-08.02.06
12- Hunter V2.3 (F2)(PY)-26.04.05
13- Ymir (F2)(Numsgil)-21.02.05
14- Ratticus Rex (F2)(Jez)-27.02.07
15- SWARM 2.0 (F2)(Elite)-10.03.07
16- Zebedee V2.1 (F2)(Jez)-26.07.06
17- Icarus (F2)(Light)-26.11.04
18- Spiral (IB)(F2)(abyaly)-16.06.07
19- Tortuca Mechanica (F2)(Eight)-18.09.04
20- Purple Swarmer (F2)(PY)-23.02.05
21- One Man Bucket (SS)(F2)(abyaly)-03.04.07
22- Seasnake_1.0
23- Brevis (SS) (F2) (Moonfisher) 22-03-08
24- Fishy (IB)(MacadamiaNuts)-11.06.07
25- OculusInfinitusv1.1(F2)(CommanderKeen)
26- Vermis Bicerebrus
27- Massed Hunter(F2)(rayz)
28- Daedelus (F2)(Light)-29.07.04
29- BOTbot(Bacillus)
30- Purple Flamma (F2)(PY(Mod))-04.01.05

A lot of new bots are on the board, and a great many have fallen off. One Man Bucket seems to be stopping a great number of bots from going up the league...
Also of note, Zebedee went up 11 places, and Excalibur remains highly competitive, although several bots have managed to beat it.
Overall, I think it will be a lot harder for bots to get into the F2 league now. The standard of bots has defintely gone up

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Bot Tavern / The F1 League lives again!

« on: September 26, 2008, 12:26:28 AM »

Just running BOTbot, then all that's left is to run Spinner 1.51 (Just in case it doesn't make 1st place, have to be sure...) and then the Lovebot. I'm hoping Lovebot won't take long to run, but I have a bad gut feeling about it...

I'll post up the league standings just before I run Lovebot...

And after that I can improve Republican Wasp

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F2 bots / Spinner v1.51 (F2) (Moonfisher) 26-09-08

« on: September 26, 2008, 12:08:40 AM »

Ok, I'll run it again

To be honest I'm quite shocked that Republican Wasp even made it into the F1 League. It was just a quick mod of the bee. I'll have to update it  

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Bot Tavern / The F1 League lives again!

« on: September 25, 2008, 02:50:21 AM »

Spinner remains on top of the F2 league, even without leaching. No surprises there

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Bot Tavern / The F1 League lives again!

« on: September 23, 2008, 05:42:26 PM »

I'll run it again without the leaching. It didn't take long to reach 1st place, so it won't waste too much time running it again. Luckily since it blasted right up to 1st place it hasn't invalidated any of the other results

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Bot Tavern / The F1 League lives again!

« on: September 22, 2008, 10:27:58 PM »

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

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F2 bots / Republican Bee (F2)(Commander Keen)

« on: September 22, 2008, 09:18:40 PM »

Very minor update, just adjusted the conspec.

Also note that for some reason it doesn't always work out and produce a 0 for conspecs, which is why there's the line which sets it to 0 if it is 1. Might be a bug somewhere causing this, might not.

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Bot Tavern / The F1 League lives again!

« on: September 20, 2008, 07:23:11 PM »

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.

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Bot Tavern / The F1 League lives again!

« on: September 19, 2008, 07:21:40 PM »

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

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Bot Tavern / The F1 League lives again!

« on: September 18, 2008, 08:34:53 PM »

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...