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| − | <center><h2> "Use no way as a way, No limitation as a limitation."...Bruce Lee </h2></center><br>
| + | {{Infobox Robot |
| | + | | author = [[User:Sparafucil3|jim]] (jekl) |
| | + | | extends = [[AdvancedRobot]] |
| | + | | targeting = [[GuessFactor Targeting]] |
| | + | | movement = [[Wave Surfing]] |
| | + | | current_version = 0.90.9 |
| | + | | released = 2004 |
| | + | | license = [[RWPCL]] |
| | + | | best_rating = #6 Elo (2004) |
| | + | | download_link = http://robocode-archive.strangeautomata.com/robots/jekl.DarkHallow_.90.9.jar |
| | + | | isOpenSource = true |
| | + | | isMelee = false |
| | + | | isOneOnOne = true |
| | + | }} |
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| − | [[/Gunnery|Help a targeting dummy out]] [[/Questions|Help a fellow geek out]] [[/Observations|Things I have noticed]] [[/WhatLessonHere|What Lesson is Here]] [[/OldBulletinBoard]]
| + | <blockquote> |
| | + | <p>Use no way as a way, no limitation as a limitation.</p> |
| | + | <p><small>— Bruce Lee</small></p> |
| | + | </blockquote> |
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| | + | | page1 = Bulletin Board |
| | + | | page2 = Archived Talk |
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| − | ==== Bulletin Board ==== | + | == Background Information == |
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| + | ; What's special about it? |
| − | <b>September 10, 2005:</b> -- Small segment change. Bug fix in the gun. Still can not stand in with a surfer.
| + | : It is my first [[Wave Surfer]]. |
| − | <b>Score:</b> <br>
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| − | <b>March 18, 2005:</b> Ver 0.90.7.3 -- Small segment change. <br>
| + | : At its peak, DarkHallow [[oldwiki:RoboRumble/Rankings roborumble 20040714|was #6 in the RoboRumble]]. It was the sixth member of [[The 2000 Club]]. |
| − | <b>Score:</b> 1989.88 details graph 2184 <br>
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| − | <b>March 14, 2005:</b> Ver 0.90.7.2 -- Small segment change. <br>
| + | ; How competitive is it? |
| − | <b>Score:</b> 1993 after 899<br>
| + | : '''{{RumbleStatsDefault|link=http://literumble.appspot.com/BotDetails?game=roborumble&name=jekl.DarkHallow%20.90.9|rumble=RoboRumble|scorelabel=APS|score=78.95|rank=70th|win=1074|loss=85|plrank=75th|glicko2=N/A|pwin=92.67|vote=0|anpp=82.82|score2label=Survival|score2=84.41}}''' |
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| − | <b>March 13, 2005:</b> Ver 0.90.7.1 -- Changed from 41 visit bins to 29. <br>
| + | == Strategy == |
| − | <b>Score:</b> 2005.96 after 728 <br>
| + | ; How does it [[Movement|move]]? |
| | + | : It uses [[Wave Surfing]]. |
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| − | <b>March 13, 2005:</b> Ver 0.90.7 -- Added the segments back. Quick stats segment is still unsegmented. <br>
| + | ; How does it fire? |
| − | <b>Score:</b> 2000 after 850+ <br>
| + | : It uses a [[GuessFactor Targeting]] system, copied and slightly modified from [[BlackPearl]]. |
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| − | <b>March 10, 2005:</b> Ver 0.90.5 -- Totally un-segmented visit buffer. <br>
| + | ; How does it [[Dodging Bullets|dodge bullets]]? |
| − | <b>Score:</b>1986.98 after 1027 <br>
| + | : It surfs. |
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| − | <b>March 1, 2005:</b> Ver 0.90.4 -- More untested changes. <br>
| + | ; How does the [[melee]] strategy differ from [[one-on-one]] strategy? |
| − | <b>Score:</b> 1997.25 after 1163 <br>
| + | : No melee capability in there yet. |
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| − | <b>February 27, 2005:</b> Ver 0.90.4 -- More untested changes. <br>
| + | ; What does it save between rounds and matches? |
| − | <b>Score:</b>1996.53<br>
| + | : No data is saved between matches. |
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| − | <b>February 24, 2005:</b> Ver 0.90.3 -- More untested changes. <br>
| + | == Additional Information == |
| − | <b>Score:</b>1982.68<br>
| + | ; Where did you get the name? |
| | + | : From [[wikipedia:Dark Hollow (song)|a song]] by the [[wikipedia:Grateful Dead|Grateful Dead]]: |
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| − | <b>February 24, 2005:</b> Ver 0.90.1 -- I have the day off, I am bored so I looked into the code. Found a couple of bugs so I fixed them. Not tested too extensively so who knows how it will do.<br>
| + | :: <i>I'd rather be in some dark hollow where the sun don't ever shine</i> |
| − | <b>Score:</b>1985.48<br> | + | :: <i>Then to be in some big city, in a small room, with you upon my mind</i> |
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| − | <b>November 18, 2004:</b> Ver 0.86.2 -- Reduced suffering segments.<br>
| + | : I know it has no bearing on Robocode but I love the Dead so... |
| − | <b>Score:</b>#12 overall. Not sure of the score.<br>
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| − | <b>November 17, 2004:</b> Ver 0.86.1 -- Changing the surfing again. After chatting with [[PEZ]] I have some ideas on whats wrong with my sufring. Unfortunately those changes are not in this release. Just need a baseline.<br>
| + | ; Can I use your code? |
| − | <b>Score:</b> 1987.97 after 947<br>
| + | : Code is in the JAR. It is not very tight right yet, but feel free. Use the [[RWPCL]] please. |
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| − | <b>November 15, 2004:</b> Ver 0.86.1 -- Same as .86 with bot width calculations removed. Added a better power management section which I hope earns more survival points.<br>
| + | ; What's next for your robot? |
| − | <b>Score:</b> 1979.24 after 900. Another dissappointing release.<br>
| + | : DarkHallow hasn't been updated since 2005. |
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| − | <b>November 14, 2004:</b> Ver 0.86 -- Orbit closest Wave origin, or target if no waves. Small change to danger calculations. Added stop evaluation although I do not think it is working all that well.<br>
| + | ; Does it have any [[White Whale]]s? |
| − | <b>Score:</b> 1989.16 after 1056. This was very disappointing as I thought this version was better than previous versions. It seemed to test better. Ah well. <br>
| + | : None right now. More to come later, I am sure. |
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| − | <b>November 12, 2004:</b> Ver 0.85.3 -- Weighting waves according to bullet power.<br>
| + | ; What other robot(s) is it based on? |
| − | <b>Score:</b> 2010.25 after 909 <br>
| + | : It started as [[BlackPearl]], which is based on [[Jekyl]]. |
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| − | <b>November 11, 2004:</b> Ver 0.85.2 -- Roll back parts of movement to an earlier version.<br>
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| − | <b>Score:</b> 2004.56 after 959 <br>
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| − | <b>November 11, 2004:</b> Ver 0.85.3 -- Removed setMax's to see if it makes a difference.<br>
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| − | <b>Score:</b> 2001.72 after 810 <br>
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| − | <b>November 10, 2004:</b> Ver 0.85.3 -- Gun tweak, Rolling averages.<br>
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| − | <b>Score:</b> 1999.65 after 955 <br>
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| − | <b>November 7, 2004:</b> Ver 0.85.2 -- Gun tweak, power management tweak, restored movement.<br>
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| − | <b>Score:</b> 1991.93 after 1139 <br>
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| − | <b>November 3, 2004:</b> Ver 0.85.1 -- Weighting waves by shot power, segment tweaks.<br>
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| − | <b>Score:</b> 2002.67 after 1291 <br>
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| − | <b>October 16, 2004:</b> Ver 0.85 -- Roll back and a bug fix. Damn you [[David_Alves]] =^>.<br>
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| − | <b>Score:</b> 2010.09 after 829.<br>
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| − | <b>October 16, 2004:</b> Ver 0.84.3 -- Movement tweak.<br>
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| − | <b>Score:</b> 1980.38 after 1463 <br>
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| − | <b>October 11, 2004:</b> Ver 0.84.2 -- Movement tweak.<br>
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| − | <b>Score:</b> 2019.34 after 1385 <br>
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| − | <b>October 11, 2004:</b> Ver 0.84.1 -- Added an even more (hopefully) precise movement prediction engine.<br>
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| − | <b>Score:</b> 2015.77 after 695.<br>
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| − | <b>October 11, 2004:</b> Ver 0.84 -- Added (hopefully) a more precise movement prediction engine.<br>
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| − | <b>Score:</b> 2021.08 after 1159<br>
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| − | <b>October 10, 2004:</b> Ver 0.83.1 -- Movement tweak.<br>
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| − | <b>Score:</b> 2020.02 after 576.<br>
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| − | <b>October 10, 2004:</b> Ver 0.83 -- Significant bug fix. I had an error in my directional calculation that resulted in movement waves that were backwards (-1 was in the direction of movement). Rolled back to 0.82.2.2 and am now testing the fix.<br>
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| − | <b>Score:</b> 2022.71 after 901<br>
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| − | <b>October 9, 2004:</b> Ver 0.82.4 -- Bug Fix. Still with [[PEZ]]'s suggested change.<br>
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| − | <b>Score:</b> 1998.05 after 1111.<br>
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| − | <b>October 9, 2004:</b> Ver 0.82.3 -- Bug Fix. Still with [[PEZ]]'s suggested change.<br>
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| − | <b>Score:</b> 2011.2 after 1162<br>
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| − | <b>October 9, 2004:</b> Ver 0.82.3 -- Roll back .0.82.2.2. Adding a suggestion by [[PEZ]].<br>
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| − | <b>Score</b>: 2008.83 after 535.<br>
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| − | <b>October 9, 2004:</b> Ver 0.82.2.3 -- Experimental release. Added more GF's for hopefully better performance at longer ranges. Probably the last of the experimental releases before a rewrite of my surfing with some suggestions by [[PEZ]] thrown in.<br>
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| − | <b>Score:</b> 2020.64 after 756<br>
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| − | <b>October 8, 2004:</b> Ver 0.82.2.2 -- Experimental release. Adding more effective (I hope) protection from diving in.<br>
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| − | <b>Score:</b> 2024.94 after 1367<br>
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| − | <b>October 8, 2004:</b> Ver 0.82.2.1 -- Experimemtal release. Removed distance segment to see what effect it has.<br>
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| − | <b>Score:</b> 2021.39 after 1130<br>
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| − | <b>October 8, 2004:</b> Ver 0.82.2 -- Bug fix. Now distance segment works. I may disable it again later.<br>
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| − | <b>Score:</b> 2026.15 after 584. Best score yet. Temporarily over 2040.<br>
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| − | <b>September 27, 2004:</b> Ber 0.82.1 -- refinement of the bugfix in the previous version and a gun tweak.<br>
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| − | <b>Score:</b> 2020.3 after 631. Great crash affected scoring.</br>
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| − | <b>September 26, 2004:</b> Ver 0.82 -- Now bug fixing the .59.3 line. First bug fix: (int)Math.round(latVShotTime/3) can be rounded to 3. This muddied my movement related latvel stats. <br>
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| − | <b>Score:</b> 2018.75 after 854<br>
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| − | <b>September 26, 2004:</b> Ver 0.81.5 -- Now to make sure everything is back to normal.<br>
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| − | <b>Score:</b> 2019.86 after 341<br>
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| − | <b>September 26, 2004:</b> Ver 0.81.4 -- Testing the last of the .7x line of "improvements". This is the one I really hope works. It replaced AndrewsCoolWay with Paul Evans' classic [[RollingAverage]]s.<br>
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| − | <b>Score:</b> 2001.57 after 697<br>
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| − | <b>September 25, 2004:</b> Ver 0.81.3 -- Testing some other options from the failed .7x line. <br>
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| − | <b>Score:</b> 1999.38 after 603<br>
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| − | <b>September 25, 2004:</b> Ver 0.81.2 -- Bug fix<br>
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| − | <b>Score:</b> 1989.46 after 144.<br>
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| − | <b>September 25, 2004:</b> Ver 0.81.1 -- Bug fix. Not sure what it was though.<br>
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| − | <b>RECALLED</b> I had to download the bot and run it locally to find the error. Sorry to flail like that.<br>
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| − | <b>September 25, 2004:</b> Ver 0.81 -- Adding back in functionality removed when I rolled back. Looking to see if it makes a difference or not.<br>
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| − | <b>RECALLED!</b> Something is not right here. When you see this:
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| − | <pre>
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| − | Fighting battle 10 ... jekl.DarkHallow 0.81,nic.Nicator 2.4
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| − | RESULT = nic.Nicator 2.4 wins 6063 to 488
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| − | </pre>
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| − | you know something is not right.<br>
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| − | <b>September 24, 2004:</b> Ver 0.80 -- Rollback to .59.3 to prove that it will not be as good. [[PEZ]] was right <i>again</i>.<br>
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| − | <b>Score:</b> 2022.34 after 707.<br>
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| − | Currently on my todo list:
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| − | *I need to solve the "diving in" problem at some point. I am not sure what the correct solution is but I know there is one.
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| − | *Wall avoidance. Can you believe I still hit the walls? I can not either.
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| − | *Data saving at some point.
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| − | ==== What's special about it? ====
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| − | It is my first WaveSurfer.
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| − | ==== Great, I want to try it. Where can I download it? ====
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| − | http://www.robocoderepository.com/BotDetail.jsp?id=2296
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| − | ==== How competitive is it? ====
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| − | It is in the rumble now so time will tell.
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| − | ==== How does it [[Movement|move]]? ====
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| − | WaveSurf
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| − | ==== How does it fire? ====
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| − | Uses a guess factored targeting system copied and slightly modified from BlackPearl.
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| − | ==== How does it [[DodgingBullets|dodge bullets]]? ====
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| − | It surfs.
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| − | ==== How does the [[Melee|melee]] strategy differ from [[OneOnOne|one-on-one]] strategy? ====
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| − | [[OneOnOne|one-on-one]] only at this point.
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| − | ==== How does it select a target to attack/avoid in [[Melee|melee]]? ====
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| − | No melee capability in there yet.
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| − | ==== What does it save between rounds and matches? ===
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| − | No data is saved.
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| − | ==== Where did you get the name? ====
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| − | From a song by the Grateful Dead: <i>I would rather be in some Dark Hallow, where the sun don't ever shine, than to be in some big city, in a small room with a girl on my mind.</i> I know it has no bearing on RC but I love the Dead so.....
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| − | ==== Can I use your code? ====
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| − | Code is in the jar. It is not very tight right yet but feel free. Use the [[RWPCL]] please.
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| − | ==== What's next for your robot? ====
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| − | Not sure yet.
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| − | ==== Does it have any [[WhiteWhale]]s? ====
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| − | None right now. More to come later I am sure.
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| − | ==== What other robot(s) is it based on? ====
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| − | It started as BlackPearl, which is based on [[Jekyl]]. | |
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| − | ==== Comments, questions, feedback: ====
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| − | "Can you believe I still hit the walls?" Try this:
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| − | setMaxVelocity(150.0 / getTurnRemaining());
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| − | Combine that with a large enough wall margin and you should be fine. For example, use 150.0 / getTurnRemaining() and don't pick destination points that are within 25 pixels of the walls. Using a higher number than 150 will prevent you from slowing down so much when you turn, but will require a larger wall margin to ensure that you don't hit walls. --[[David Alves]]
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| − | But this is a risky business for a WaveSurfer unless you also build it into your movement predictor. CassiusClay too hit walls at times. I think it is my WallSmoothing algo that don't take into account that it takes quite a while to reverse direction. Jim, check if maybe DH has decided to reverse direction just before it hits the wall and see if you share the same glitch. -- [[PEZ]]
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| − | So build it into your movement predictor. ;-) --[[David Alves]]
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| − | Nah. It's complicated enough as it is. -- [[PEZ]]
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| − | Right now I am testing all of my "improvements" from the .70 line. It seems that for the most part they were anything but. Once I am done with that I will move on to new things. One of the first orders of business will be to protect myself from firing enemy waves when they collide woth the wall. I am not sure how to work that out though. -- [[jim]]
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| − | '''November 2 2004 (CET)''' - Welcome back man. I've missed ya! -- [[PEZ]]
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| − | Lets see how I feel in a week. I was pretty burned out. This version will finally beat DT over 500 rounds. It is the only test I ran too. -- [[jim]]
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| − | So much for me having the top US bot. :-( Oh well. Congrats! --[[David Alves]]
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| − | Thanks. It was really just old code. Nothing new. Some small bug fixes. Still plenty of room between my score and infinity for you to slip into ;-) -- [[jim]]
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| − | Cool man, welcome back. ;] -- [[iiley]]
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| − | [[Pulsar]] is waking us all up. Isn't he? =) You found 10 points there. Good work. -- [[PEZ]]
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| − | I would not read too much into it. I just had the day off work due to a snow storm in the region. Like I said last time, lets see how I feel in a week. -- jim
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| − | How do you weight your visit stats compared to hit stats? Do you roll the stats? How fast? I find it interesting that you gain lots of points by segmentation of the visit stats while I lose a few... -- [[PEZ]]
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| − | Hey [[PEZ]]. I segment my stats like this:
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| − | hits[accelIndex][outIndex][(int)Math.round(myLatVel)/3][distIndex]
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| − | fastHitsBuf[0][0][0]
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| − | </code>
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| − | The distance index is 5 buckets of 180 pixels, the out index is 5 buckets of 45 pixels. I am currently using 29 GuessFactors. I got a 6 point boost going from 41 to 29. I roll the stats using AndrewsCoolWay. My gun stats and my movement stats are indentical in most ways. My gun stats have more segments (a closingIndex and a timeIndex) and are not rolled. I have tried not rolling my movement stats but after about 15 or so turns I seem to get stuck between some local maxima and oscilate in place. As you are well aware, thats not so good =^> -- [[jim]]
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| − | Cool. And how (if) do you weigh the visit stats? Mine has weight 45. Unsegmented hit stats has weight 50 and most segmented hit stats weighs 100. I roll my movement stats using [[Paul]]'s RollingAverage. -- [[PEZ]]
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