BedMaker

Glad to see someone else enthusiastic about BedMaker. =) I also dropped Darkcanuck an email a few days ago. I'm not sure what's up - he's usually pretty responsive. Maybe a summer vacation?

Anyway, while it's not a good permanent solution, let me know if you want me to run some configurations for you and post the RoboRumble challenge files, to get you started. For instance, my current test bed is like: "400 bots that Diamond scores 60-92 against" (~top half of the rumble, bedmaker.pl -n 400 -r roborumble -ref voidious.Diamond -min 60 -max 92), and I think my next one is going to be "500 bots that Diamond scores 55 - 99 against" (ie, large random sampling of most of the rumble, excluding DrussGT and bots I score almost perfectly against).

Thanks!

I'm sure it's vacation and summer stuff. No biggie. I'm really looking forward to making some test beds so that I can try out some fixes and tweaks, give them an evening/night run on my computer and see how they fare without bothering the Rumble with them.

It's been confounding to me how often I'll make a change, test and see improvement against 8/10 bots, and see that alteration tank in the Rumble! Not to mention the time taken in manual testing. Much more fun to just code, and see the results in the morning locally.

I've been trying to get up near CassiusClay, YersiniaPestis et. al. in Rumble score before adding on more advanced stuff like Bullet Shadows and Gun Heat Waves (both of which I've got my code in a state to pretty easily tack on, thankfully!) It's been a heck of a struggle though, and I'm fighting for every 0.1 APS it seems. Good ol' law of diminishing returns.

If you wouldn't mind generating a challenge file for me, I'd be appreciative! How about....

"150 bots that deBroglie rev0108 scores 57-95 against"

That should get me a decent size test bed of bots that I'd like to see myself do much better against. There hasn't been too much churn version-to-version above the 95 percent line.. and there's been lots of churn below ~57, most of which will take more advanced work to really beat anyway.

Feel free to tell me if you think that's a poor choice for an 'Am I helping or hurting this bot with this change' type of test bed, or if it should be bigger or smaller.