Not enough hours in the day

I can't believe how long it has been since I was last active.

Life keeps me quite busy, but I still think about RoboCode from time to time. I'm tempted to come back for awhile and update RoboJogger (finally get it to a stable 1.0 version), and maybe even work on a robot (maybe take a new look at the missed turns issue XanderCat had in the first couple of rounds).

I hope everyone is doing well!

I'm honestly not too excited about trying to improve on XanderCat in 1:1 combat. Deminishing returns and all. I'm actually more interested in updating my robot framework to fully support melee combat, and then building my first real melee robot. Not sure if I will just expand XanderCat for this, or create a separate robot (maybe XanderClowder).

I find that it is convenient to treat my bot the same as enemies bot inside the code. I.e. each bot has full information on past and present battlefield situation. My bot would fire real bullets, enemies would make "virtual" decision on firing, which mine is dodging. That assumes that enemies using similar guns and strategies. So I might even have a rough guess at which opponent an enemy fires in melee (if they use same decision tactic) and dodge or not dodge such bullet.

One can even attemt to extend it, and predict which way the enemy would dodge in melee taking in account not only my bullets but other enemies too. But this is CPU expensive and leads to missed turns, so I do not use it. Though, I feel it can be done relatively fast.