Talk:Capulet

Congrats on this very strong competitor. The power of Circular Targeting indeed is underestimated in melee, all my bots (except GrofVuil) are using it. So the idea of getting to a good spot, occupied or not, gives you the edge in micromelee. I am curious though if you can hold #2 as soon as mini- and micro-battles are fought, as my experience is that meleemovements work best when other good meleebots are around. --GrubbmGait 23:30, 9 September 2009 (UTC)

Thanks! I'm not quite sure what you mean about the mini/micro battles, I had always thought that all melee battles were fought with bots of all codesizes. And actually, while testing it, I found that it did much worse when very good bots were on the field. Trying to take a corner from a nano melee bot with linear targeting and simple movement is often a good idea, whereas trying to take it from Shadow can be a recipe for disaster.... In fact, that happens far too often when it is placed in a battle with a top melee bot.--CrazyBassoonist 23:39, 9 September 2009 (UTC)

With mini/micro battles I mean when all bots have fought 2000 (or what the client has filled in) battles in megamelee. If a mini/micro bot still needs battles in minimelee, battles are with mini (or smaller) only. Same when minibattles have reached 2000, then a micro will fight micro/nano battles till reaching the amount of battles there. My experience is that pure Minimum Risk Movement is less effective in the smaller classes and the more agressive movements more effective. I'm not sure which qualification suites your movement best though, that's why I am curious :) --GrubbmGait 23:53, 9 September 2009 (UTC)

Oh. Interesting, I didn't know that. I would probably consider it's movement an aggressive one, at least definitely more so than most of the other top melee bots. It tends to advance towards whatever robots are in the closest corner, and then stay there unless it has an enemy that is very far away.--CrazyBassoonist 00:01, 10 September 2009 (UTC)

Congrats! Wow, really nice work. BlitzBat always loses points in mini/micro battles, but I don't think it's ever been 1%, your current margin over Shiz. Good luck in your quest for the MicroMelee throne! --Voidious 01:10, 10 September 2009 (UTC)

Thanks. It'd be pretty cool for me if I could unseat sprout! I think I'm actually going to gain points from mini/micro battles too, as this is very much a pick-on-the-weak robot=)--CrazyBassoonist 01:40, 10 September 2009 (UTC)

Also, it would be nice to see some competition from BlitzBat if you ever feel like it :-)--CrazyBassoonist 01:55, 10 September 2009 (UTC)