Ideal amount of segments

You can use as much segments as possible, as long as you keep enough data points within given segment.

Experience is that those bots aren’t using 5-6 segments because of code size, but increasing dimensions further decreases data points greatly. To solve this, advanced bots use many buffers.

Also, not all segments are useful. If your bot keeps its preferred distance quite aggressively, a distance segment is not very useful against the majority of opponents. So therefor multiple buffers with different weighting of the segments can be more beneficial. Or only going further down the segmentation tree if enough datapoints are available there. Some bots only use two segments early in the game and increase it later on.

Alright, thanks for the input. I think I'll add a wall index and then start work on adding some buffers =)