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I'm tracking enemy heats, but didn't implement gun heat waves yet. However, if there is no waves in air, I fire a HOT wave every tick to make me get to a better position using existing danger evaluation code. It works surprisingly well against Rammers though ;)

Yeah, I thought of something like that, so I used some stupid fallback movement. What I thought was, instead of using a simple fallback movement, to test all three surfing options and pick the one that puts me in a better position to surf a wave fired X ticks later, where X is the no. of ticks 'til the enemy's gun is cool. The thing is that I don't know where the wave will be fired from. I would have to estimate it, and maybe I would have to estimate it after every tick. My robot is probably slow enough already. Additionally, I thought it was not worth it. Good to know it may work against rammers. My fallback movement oftenly puts me in a bad position.

I don't try to simulate real waves at all, just fire a HOT bullet every tick and delete it immediately. As a Rammer just looks like some HOT bullet that constantly firing at you at every tick.

One side effect of this one tick surfing fallback movement is that it moves not only to a position far from enemy, but also with max escape angle (which is also good against both real bullets and rammers).