Robot Benchmarking Thoughts

During the first round the surfing is very predictable, making the guns learn much quicker; there is also very little data in the gun, so it acts like a very fast rolling gun.

I wonder how these are affected by when flatteners and alternate guns are enabled and disabled?

Also, keep in mind that DrussGT fires lower bullet power (or did, last time I checked).

Yep, I'm aware. It doesn't surprise me that the hitrate is much higher in the first round, though I do find it interesting that Diamond manages to keep the hitrate high for a little longer.

Yeah, that would be interesting. Well, if robots output that information in the terminal, or (better yet) track it in "AdvancedRobot.setDebugProperty(key, value)", it would be easy enough for me to make this tool keep track of it...

That is a good point, though I mostly am planning on doing hitrate analysis for comparing different versions of a bot, with the fixed bullet power of the movement/targeting challenges.

That sounds sweet Rednaxela! I've had the same thoughts about TC scoring being very odd compared to hit rate - it (basically) gives a 100 for anything over a certain hit rate in a round, then scales down to 0 for anything under that. It's one thing I really like about using WaveSim.

Another thing I would suggest adding is energy ratio ((damage done + energy gained) / energy fired). That's what I key off of when using WaveSim, and to me, it seems like the best "real world" fitness measurement.

Another interesting thing to me would be which bot is approaching/retreating most, or which bot is usually occupying center field vs being pushed to the corners. It's generally advantageous APS-wise to keep as much distance as possible, but between two evenly matched bots, the bot with the lower desired distance is sometimes at a huge advantage, since he has a bigger MEA than the bot stuck in the corner.