User talk:Starrynte

You're listed under U on the Bot Authors page for some reason. --Synapse 06:44, 3 September 2008 (UTC)

• ([[Category:Bot_Authors]] --> [[Category:Bot_Authors|Starrynte]]) Syntax for category listings ordered by a key other than the page title. -- Alexander (Nfwu) 10:08, 4 September 2008 (UTC)

Sometimes...sometimes I want to return to robocoding, which i haven't in possibly a year now...I quit partly because of school and partly because discussion was progressing towards a level I couldn't understand well...I do have some ideas though, and the nice thing about Robocode is that you play completely according to your schedule, so I am possibly returning. So my question now is, what advances in robocoding have occurred over the past year? --Starrynte 04:29, 11 September 2009 (UTC)

• Wow, last I remembered Robocode was 1.6 something, and now is already 1.7.1.4

Hey dude, welcome back. Two big non-robot things that have happened are that we're now using Darkcanuck's awesome new RoboRumble server, and we got the new wiki moved over to robowiki.net and a lot of nice stuff setup here. (There's still a copy of the old wiki on the new server at old.robowiki.net.) There's been a lot of melee activity in the last few months, that's been fun. Miked0801 came back and reclaimed both NanoBot titles. DrussGT is still on top in 1v1, now with a huge lead. There's been quite a lot of activity lately, as well, more than I've seen in a long time. There's plenty more to add, I'm sure, but those are the first things that come to mind, and I've got to get to bed. =) --Voidious 05:14, 11 September 2009 (UTC)

Two questions: 1) Robocode has been quite slow lately, any way to fix? (using 1.7.1.4 beta) For sure not a memory problem, unless 512M allocated to robocode isn't enough; not a cpu problem either. TPS/FPS is only around 5, when I set it to 30. (works fine when minimized though) 2) What are the 2 bars below the robot's name? --Starrynte 03:19, 14 September 2009 (UTC)

Under Options > Preferences > Rendering Options, you can change it to render for speed or quality or custom settings. If it's set to default, maybe give "Speed" a try? I think those bars represent energy, though I'm not sure what the various colors mean. --Voidious 03:31, 14 September 2009 (UTC)

It was already set to Speed. (though seems to be slightly better now, I didn't change anything. Maybe it was a slowbot) --Starrynte 03:55, 14 September 2009 (UTC)

The green/yellow/red bar represent energy: >50 = green; 20-50 = yellow; <20 = red (IIRC). Another blue bar is the 'score' it gains that round. Full bar means that you have the highest score in that rounds. The score bar can't tell you the real score since the length is the factor ratio against bot with the highest score.

About the slow, yes, I noticed that too. I think there are some problem with the graphics proxy, some of my robot that draw 1000+ shape as its debugging graphics, which used to work fine in 1.6.2/1.7.0.x/1.7.1.1, now throws BufferOverflowException in the graphics engine of Robocode. But perhaps this is Java bug? » Nat | Talk » 14:50, 14 September 2009 (UTC)