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Wow! SimpleBot jumped 130 rankings. 65 is really good. You forced me to make a new bot=).

It's simply because I finally decided to try some kNN instead of random ;) It's still very simple without any kernel density; ) And I'm really excited and expected to see your new bot beating this! :D

Right now it has some fast learning problems like getting beaten against Walls or SpinBot in the first round=). Maybe I'll do some adaptive learning rate.

Yes neural networks are typical experiencing a hard time at the initial ;p How many layers are you using? Would you try using two networks, one fast learning, one deep learning?

It is a perceptron with some pre-processing. I can try deep learning. It may be useful at hitting simple=) movements.

I tested it with some tuning. It can't pass my Anti-Surfer Gun against any sample bot.=(

Have any of you had any success with a DC+NN gun? I got my NN gun working pretty well against surfers and, even though my DC gun is still doing better, I think I can improve it enough to surpass it. But it performs really bad against random movers compared to my anti-random gun, even when I set up more than one NN, like in Gaff. Does that combination make any sense?

I now beat SimpleBot with %57 both by Damage and Survival=). Maybe I'll pass you again.

Good result! SimpleBot's movement is not tuned at all (surfing last hit & 1 nearest neighbor gf) and I'm rewriting it ;)

My gun just uses 5 input and movement uses 4 input. I didn't increase the number of features which will increase my performance %100. I will rewrite surfing too.=)

my movement uses just 3 inputs ;) my gun was using just 5 inputs too ;)

38th, that escalated quickly! :)

thanks! the movement is still not tuned ;) just added second wave surfing to see the difference.

Please, just stop robocoding for a while. My motivation is collapsing=).

There will be no release today ;) And congratulations to your new bot, it climbs up very fast! Waiting your new bot to beat me again!

Thank you, I have tons of things to improve and lots of tuning to do but SimpleBot's movement will be easy to improve for you. I think you will be in top-30 in the next release and I just passed ColdBreath.

I just saw it. SimpleBot beats me with %51=(

Congratulations Xor.

But please stop doing it :) While my "improvements" move my bot down the rank, yours are pushing up. Very depressing for me ... :)

On a serious note. Excelent work and motivates me to push harder.

I had the same thing with WhiteFang. In every update the bot just didn't improve or fell down.

Thanks Beaming! My bot improved so fast only because it is just at the beginning (it's too simple therefore there are a lot of things to do which will definitely improve the performance), and it will face the same problem with everyone when getting complicated.

And one thing that's really important in my experience is that to limit your change to a very limited field, etc. don't touch anything in the movement when changing your gun ;)

And that's why sometimes I release several versions in one day ;) I release a new version even when doing some refactors to make sure not breaking anything.

Time to change the name? "SimpleBot" is making me sad :P

I think so ;) It is getting complicated now, may be I should rename it to ComplicatedBot ;p

May be it's time to start over ;)

You have everything that a good bot needs to have. Precise Prediction, Kd-Tree, Wave Surfing.

And to keep it simple, there's still a lot of complicated strategy I didn't use, etc. BulletShield, BulletShadow, PreciseIntersection, Flattener, AntiSurfer Gun, Virtual Gun...

I know, I just want to make myself happy=).