YersiniaPestis/VersionHistory

Version 2.0 Download link

• Rumble position: 37. date: 07/22/09
• Premier League position: 14. date: 07/22/09

• Scratch rewrite.
• Distancers were merged as crowd information rather than changing from one to the other.
• Very precise wave surfing.
• Results:

• Terrible drop in APS and PL.
• Since it was trained to assure PL crown it shows quite an improvement against some top PL bots, but it has an amazing drop against weaker bots.

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Version 1.7 Download link

• Rumble position: 10. date: 05/18/09
• Premier League position: 5. date: 05/18/09
• Melee Rumble position: No melee code. date: 05/13/09
• Melee Premier League position: No melee code. date: 05/13/09

• Back to 1.3.7.
• Weight scans by inverse square euclidean distance for the gun.
• Results:

• Minimal improvement in APS.
• Much worse in PL, most likely something is getting the bot disabled.

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Version 1.6.2.4 Download link

• Rumble position: 15. date: 05/15/09
• Premier League position: 5. date: 05/15/09
• Melee Rumble position: No melee code. date: 05/13/09
• Melee Premier League position: No melee code. date: 05/13/09

• Fixed compilation error in the VG system that made it disable every time there was a virtual hit.
• Results:

• Worse APS and PL than version 1.3.7

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Version 1.6.2.3 Download link

• Rumble position: ??. date: 05/13/09
• Premier League position: ??. date: 05/13/09
• Melee Rumble position: No melee code. date: 05/13/09
• Melee Premier League position: No melee code. date: 05/13/09

• Changed the VG system, hopefully it's faster now.
• Results:

• Pulled due terrible bug.

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Version 1.6.2.0 Download link

• Rumble position: ??. date: 05/13/09
• Premier League position: ??. date: 05/13/09
• Melee Rumble position: No melee code. date: 05/13/09
• Melee Premier League position: No melee code. date: 05/13/09

• Back to version 1.3.7
• Added a new mode to the gun, a normal DC gun using inverse Manhattan distance to weight the scans.
• DC Wave surfing also using inverse Manhattan distance to weight the scans.
• Results:

• Hard to say, pulled out because it had some really weird results loosing badly against non-top bots, think it was because skipped turns.

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Version 1.5.0 Download link

• Rumble position: 10. date: 05/01/09
• Premier League position: 2(only behind YersiniaPestis 1.3.7). date: 04/01/09
• Melee Rumble position: No melee code. date: 04/01/09
• Melee Premier League position: No melee code. date: 04/01/09

• Back to version 1.3.7
• Added two more modes to guns, weak and heavy anti-surfer modes.
• Small changes to movement
• Results:

• Pretty much the same thing as YersiniaPesis 1.3.7, only very minor differences so the former is kept.

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Version 1.3.7.2 Download link

• Rumble position: 15. date: 04/15/09
• Premier League position: 4(tied with Dookious and Phoenix). date: 04/15/09
• Melee Rumble position: No melee code. date: 04/13/09
• Melee Premier League position: No melee code. date: 04/13/09

• Made virtual bullets to be factors instead of angles, mainly to make it faster.
• Added 5 dynamically adjusted weighted distancers to the gun. The real reason of the release.
• Results:

• Improved against some bots, but worse in general.

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Version 1.3.7 Download link

• Rumble position: 9. date: 04/03/09
• Premier League position: 1. date: 04/03/09
• Melee Rumble position: No melee code. date: 04/02/09
• Melee Premier League position: No melee code. date: 04/02/09

• Made rotation relative to velocities sing.
• Fixed distancing algorithm bug.
• Improved targeting
• Parameter tuning until it was able to beat Dookious, Shadow, DrussGT and Phoenix.
• Results:

• Finally in the top 10 :).
• APS went up by almost 1 point.
• Right now #1 in PL score, but may fluctuate because it has one win and one loss against some top bots.

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Version 1.3 Download link

• Rumble position: 13(estimated since version 1.2 still in the ranking). date: 04/01/09
• Premier League position: 4. date: 04/01/09
• Melee Rumble position: No melee code. date: 04/01/09
• Melee Premier League position: No melee code. date: 04/01/09

• Fixed bug calculating stopped time of bots.
• Improved targeting

• Fixed bug that made me choose a random gun instead of the best gun.
• Added an Anti-Surfer mode to the guns.

• Improved surfing

• Added a Gaussian function for smoothing.
• Changed some stuff all around, I think I made it worse in some areas.

• Results:

• No increase in ranking spots, but slightly better APS.
• It looses to Dookious again :-(.
• Better PL Score, only looses to Dookious, Phoenix and Garm. Only one battle against Shadow, so fingers still crossed.

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Version 1.2 Download link

• Rumble position: 13. date: 03/30/09
• Premier League position: 5. date: 03/30/09
• Melee Rumble position: No melee code. date: 03/30/09
• Melee Premier League position: No melee code. date: 03/30/09

• Reverted to version 0.1beta.
• Improved surfing

• Better simple targeting dodging.
• Changed how flattening works.
• Went up 2 spots in the rumble, and it won against Dookious :-).
• But worse against some other bots.

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Version 1.1 Download link

• Rumble position: ??. date: ??/??/??
• Premier League position: ??. date: ??/??/??
• Melee Rumble position: 58. date: 03/30/09
• Melee Premier League position: 57. date: 03/30/09

• Fixed potential NullPointerException.

One on One:

• Pattern Matching, using Lateral Velocity and Rotation.
• Pattern Matching, using Velocity and Heading.
• Added weighting to the Virtual Guns, so some guns are more likely to be used.

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Version 1.0 Download link

• Rumble position: 18. date: 03/13/09
• Premier League position: ??. date: ??/??/??
• Melee Rumble position: 38. date: 03/30/09
• Melee Premier League position: 37. date: 03/30/09

• Small refactoring.
• Included Rednaxela's FastTrig.

Melee:

• Anti-Gravity Movement.
• Dynamic Clustering GuessFactor Targeting.

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Version 0.1beta Download link

• 1on1 Rumble position: 15. date: 03/30/09
• 1on1 Premier League position: 5. date: 03/30/09
• Melee Rumble position: No melee code. date: ??/??/??
• Melee Premier League position: No melee code. date: ??/??/??

One on One:

• Dynamic Clustering True Surfing, with 3 different weights switching to the one that has guessed better the enemy bullets.
• Dynamic Clustering GuessFactor Targeting, with 3 different weights in a Virtual Guns array.