Talk:Gilgalad/Version History

Congrats on a huge jump into the #3 slot! You ever gonna divulge your changes? Inquiring minds want to know. =)

Looking at the score diff, I see a large improvement against mid-weight surfers. So my bet is on an improved anti-surfer gun + misc tweaks.

I have been kind of busy with starting college, but I'll update the version history soon. I think the biggest improvement comes from changing my kernel density function for surfing. I used to use the normal distribution, I now use 1 / (x^2 +1). The integral is atan so this seemed to also be a speed increase.

Congrats:) I was sure, that Tomcat have strong safety area... Unfortunately (for me of course) i have no time for robocoding until new year, so you have no opponents in battle for third place now:) And if you will take part in race for crown, you will be my new favorite (until ConceptA grow to this race, for sure) :)

Thanks. Tomcat has been my second favorite bot for a while, due to all of the unique features and cool graphics, and I hope I will be able to get to first eventually. I'm not sure how much robocode I will actually be able to do in college, but I just noticed that my antisurfer gun never seems to be the best gun choice, so I should be able to make some large improvements there...

I don't want to be a bad influence or anything, but it seems like some of the most active Robocoding in history has happened during people's college years. =) I know that's when I got hooked and wrote Dookious, and I think David Alves with both Duelist and Phoenix, and our current illustrious King... But, by all means, try and focus on school. =)

Yeah, during my undergrad I always found that I got the most Robocoding done during exam periods - something I could sort-of convince myself didn't count as play, but was much more interesting than studying =) I wonder if that's been the motivation others have had as well...

Hey, looks like i must to come back from my rest with Tomcat!:) v 1.3 results isn't stable yet, but yours rate with Gilgalad is very impressive:)

Ouch, suddenly 1 full APS point ahead . . . I want to return to the top-10 ! Really nice work though.

Wow, up to #22 and hot on the heels of CassiusClay - nice work! Welcome back. =)

Thanks.

Wow. Nice work. You may have just tempted me to spend some time on my next update, as you are defeating XanderCat now. :-) Actually, I don't mind you besting my bot, but I would really like to get the edge on Shadow, Pris and Dookious. I've just been busy with Skyrim lately.