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That's a very cool idea. The only thing I'd be concerned about is the radar, since it will subtract the amount it turns from the getRadarTurnRemainingRadians() and could eventually run out (although not really an issue if it is 1e200). Perhaps by reading in degrees and writing in radians for the infinity lock we could negate that, though. In fact, we could probably get away with a smaller value. I'll give it a spin when I get home.

Skilgannon (talk)14:24, 27 May 2013

Looks like it works ok. I was worried about depletion too, especially when I saw you use 48 (any reason for that number in particular?), then I actually thought about it and noted the rad/deg growth, so anything down to 2PI should be ok :)

Nz.jdc (talk)01:45, 29 May 2013

48 is the distance of a stop-and-go move, so my thoughts are that it will be big enough that on the enemy death it will avoid HOT, but won't go into walls.

Skilgannon (talk)08:19, 29 May 2013

Ah, clever. I keep forgetting that once an opponent dies you will stop getting scan events.
I also remember some comment about stopping on radar slips being a reason not to set it too small.

Does the recent ++integer and inversion of the matching actually work? It looks like it should always terminate the loop by setting matchPos = -1.

Nz.jdc (talk)12:10, 29 May 2013

Apparently not. I guess I should've tested that before I published it.

Sheldor (talk)14:01, 29 May 2013