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Would we be able to save a few bytes by eliminating unnecessary casting? For instance, we could make BULLET_POWER an int constant so the anti-ram doesn't have to be cast to a double. (Plus, 2 hard-coded as an int is two bytes cheaper than 2 hard-coded as a double.) Also, we could make DISTANCE_FACTOR a double constant so it doesn't get cast as a double when we use it to divide getVelocity().

I'm somewhat surprised by the ~0.1% drop in APS after changing match length reduction. It seems it tried too hard to predict random movement and got fooled more easily. I guess we'll go back to 1.1.4's method, unless you have any other ideas.

I don't think a much longer match length so much predicts random movement as it does oscillators that don't use random numbers.

Anyway, I made those changes, and the bullet power one saves us a single byte. Not sure what to do with two bytes though...

I might have another byte for you. I have been doing some experimenting my my movement code and obviously also looking at yatagan since it is the best. One tweak I have tried (but not yet benchmarked or verified) that looks like it saves one byte is to not use infinity for direction. This then allows you to use direction rather than getVelocity() in the turning code, which should save a byte. Something like:

 private final static double VERY_BIG            = 1e+200;

 private final static double CLOSE_FACTOR        = VERY_BIG * 430; 

 ...

 turnRadarRightRadians(direction = VERY_BIG);

 ...

 setTurnRightRadians(Math.cos((rd = e.getBearingRadians()) - (e.getDistance() - PREFERRED_RANGE) * (direction / CLOSE_FACTOR)));

This should work provided there is nothing weird in the robocode radar which will cause issues without the infinity.

That's a very cool idea. The only thing I'd be concerned about is the radar, since it will subtract the amount it turns from the getRadarTurnRemainingRadians() and could eventually run out (although not really an issue if it is 1e200). Perhaps by reading in degrees and writing in radians for the infinity lock we could negate that, though. In fact, we could probably get away with a smaller value. I'll give it a spin when I get home.

Looks like it works ok. I was worried about depletion too, especially when I saw you use 48 (any reason for that number in particular?), then I actually thought about it and noted the rad/deg growth, so anything down to 2PI should be ok :)

48 is the distance of a stop-and-go move, so my thoughts are that it will be big enough that on the enemy death it will avoid HOT, but won't go into walls.