Toorkild/VersionHistory

0.3.1 codesize 726

• Add a forward wall segment to the pattern matching symbol

0.3.0: codesize 726, APS 83.38

• Shrink right down to 689 bytes by:
  • Remove binsmoothing
  • Change booleans to ints for mode variables
  • Add structured break
  • Delete some extras
• Reverse on enemy death if I have my flattener enabled
• More matches
• More bins
• Aim from next location

0.2.4b: codesize ? APS 83.61

0.2.5: codesize 744

• Built off of 0.2.4
• Match off of regular adv-vel instead of halved value

0.2.4 - accidental re-release of 0.2.2 - Score: 81.84

0.2.3: codesize 749

• Remove the bin-smoothing of 0.2.0

0.2.2: codesize: 749 Score: 81.70

• Reduce number of matches from 150 to 50

0.2.1: codesize: 749 Score: awaiting re-release results

• Only match with half advancing velocity granularity

0.2.0: codesize: 744 Score: 81.53

• Change number of bins from 230 to 255 (saves 2 bytes)
• Added binsmoothing

0.1.10: codesize: 724 Score: 81.67

• Slowly adding back features from 0.1.6: this release add back decreasing bullet power when enemy energy is low.

0.1.9: codesize: 715 Score: 81.25

• Back to the old flattener enabler, but make it more likely to enable
• Steal and improve Thorn's variable distance stop-and-go code - it is now 100% optimum, ie. impossible to make improvements
  • This is actually being harsh on myself, I derived a functional equivalent, but did *8 instead of <<3.

0.1.8: codesize: 723 Score: bad

• A variation on the flattener enabler

0.1.7: codesize: 723 Score: 80.71

• Implement a more reliable flattener-enabler - might still need some tuning though
• Shoot with bullet power 1.99
• Shoot against rambots with 2.99
• Increase number of matches from 50 to 150

0.1.6: codesize: 698 Score: 80.955

• Removed lots of little things that I believe don't add much to the score.

0.1.5: codesize: 748 Score: 81.08

• Always shoots 1/16th of a pixel just to one side (no more random)
• No longer matches across rounds (required black magic and bad practices to get the shrinking to work!)
• Reduced the granularity on the lateral-velocity to 2 pixels-per-tick instead of 1 to follow what has been most successful with GF/VCS guns

0.1.4: codesize: 740 Score: 81.19 (drift downwards, scored approx. same as 0.1.3 at release)

• Random factor is now +- 1/16th of a pixel

0.1.3: codesize: 733 Score: 81.33 APS (took common pairings APS with Thorn)

• Made the random factor exactly +-1 pixel instead of a random value somewhere between -4 and +4 pixels

0.1.1CT: codesize: 733 score: 80.9 APS

• Matches across rounds again for more codesize
• CT: Catch This! Introduces a random factor in aim to prevent enemy from shooting down bullets

0.1.2: codesize: 749 score: pulled

• Somehow managed to squeeze the codesize down even further
• Shoots 3 power bullets if the last tick revealed a match over 30 ticks long
  • There was a bad bug somewhere...

0.1.1: codesize: 749 score: 2008

• Switched to bit-shifting to store both adv-vel and lat-vel in one char, instead of a different char for each. Prevents 'half-off' matches that don't get rebuilt properly.
• Doesn't match or rebuild across rounds
• Utilized the Arrays.sort and Arrays.binarySearch to reduce my codesize - so now depends on Java 1.5+ (as does Robocode, so it shouldn't be a problem)

0.1: codesize: 742 score: 2006 after 1576 First release!