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Ouch, that is quite a neat bulletshielding fix ! I want one too ! I can't even find the time to release my minibot which is under development (read fixing) for a year now.

Thank you, I may have spent my last two weeks improving WhiteFang. I still have bugs to fix such as bullet float time always returning distance / (23 * 91). The real Bullet Shielding update is coming with 2.2.8 if the bugs are not Performance Enhancing Bugs. For me, GresSuffurd is a great milestone since it was the tenth when I started robocode and it always amazes me how far a bot can get with three segments on movement and four segments on the gun.

I will add some virtual guns after I work on automatic tuning. I have a weird behavior with my shielding algorithm. Normally a bot should be able to move 1 unit forward in a tick but when I set the maximum limit of moving to 1 it shields worser. Also, I see EnergyDome not moving more than 0.2 and ShieldBot not moving more than 0.1. Why move 0.1 while it is possible to move more and have a wider shielded arc?

Because not everyone is firing HOT ;) We are cheating them.

I didn't understand, do you mean the bots which fire a wave every tick?

Close. For VCS bots, if you move too much, they have a chance of learning that tiny move and then failing your shield. For knn bots, linear/circular bots, similar thing apply.

Btw, it takes you 1 tick to move 1px, but 3 ticks to move 1px and go back. In contrast, it takes you 2 ticks to move 2/3px and back.