My predictions for 2024

I have faith in you, it'd be great to see a few more crowns changing hands (especially to somebody other than Kev! :p). If you find some changes that could get [[Epeeist]] to the top but don't have the space I'd be happy to see if I can help squeeze it in.

Mirage looks like it could potentially be squeezed down to 12xx bytes (or further) without loss of performance, so that prediction feels like a question of when, rather than if.

The energy management in [[Quantum]] v0.2.4 was a bit of a flop but I have v0.2.3 down to 230 bytes so far which gives me a few easy options:

* Add a check so that it doesn't fire if it would disable itself (Testing suggests that's worth around 0.2 APS)
* Add a check against getGunTurnRemaining (Testing suggest that's worth around 0.1 APS)

I ''think'' I'll be able to fit both of those in for v0.3.0.

The interesting gun changes will require me to build a melee version of [[WaveSim]] if I'm going to have any hope of tuning them properly. The first thing I'd like to try is replacing the Math.pow call with a table, since that would allow me to tune the lead in the gun precisely and it also doesn't require any extra space.

Alternatively I could forgo the two changes above and add a table based gun that uses lateral velocity, lateral velocity last tick, distance, bullet power and getOthers as attributes. My gut says that gun could rival (or possibly even outperform) circular targeting if tuned well, but I'm not going to be building a melee version of [[WaveSim]] anytime soon so it's entirely hypothetical right now!

After all that I'd like to try table based wall forces, which if I recall correctly would only cost me a byte or two.