Looking forward to this.

I think it would be fun to release my own bullet-shielding-only robot to compare against the other bullet shielders, but at the same time I'm not sure I want to skew rumble results further by adding more bullet shielding.

Or bots no longer in development. Like Nene. Which is actually a nice test bot for this, since it is an otherwise strong robot.

Surely you're going to put your own gun on Nene eventually?

I was going to, but Nene got very bloated and its structure isn't as good as I would have liked. I can try to retrofit my current development gun on it, but I am not sure how well that would work.

I am currently writing a new robot to see if I can correct some of those issues. I found that migrating its movement is somewhat difficult. So I might just rewrite that too, but this time with a better idea how a good movement is put together.

That´s why we have a secondary PL ranking. This ranking system is designed to not be affected by the presence of specialist bots.

Interesting stuff with bullet shielding lately... it's getting me a bit interested in coming back to robocode perhaps

Just thought I'd chime in to note, PL ranking isn't resistant to all kinds of specialists. One could argue that a bot which barely but consistently beats non-surfers, but is great against surfers, is a specialist of sorts.

It is not immune if thats what you mean. But no system is.

The biggest weakness with PL (Copeland) is if you submit a bunch of exactly equal specialist bots (clones), whoever they specialize against (scores above 50%) suffers. But no one is doing this.

That would be great. I hope you do, it would always be fun to see what you can do with it.