Bug?

Not sure if its a bug with RoboJogger, RoboRunner, or my robot. However I'm getting spurious results vs some bots.

For example vs Tron 2.01 in the TCRM challenge I'm getting an average of 87% percent when running 10 seasons manually, but in RoboJogger I'm getting an average of 61%.

I'm running Robojogger on the Mac, latest version of Robocode. I'm aware that Tron seems to be quite a slow bot, I was wondering if my bot was generating skipped turns for some reason as my bot is not too fast either. Notably in Robocode I am not generating any skipped turn events from what I can see. How do I access the Roborunner bot output? Is there a way or not?

Manually means running by hand in Robocode directly FYI incase it was unclear. :)

Oooh just saw there was a Robocode update that fixes some skipped turns, it literally came out today so I'm going to re-test with that and see what happens!

Tried the new Robocode version and I'm still getting the same result - running manually in Robocode gives a higher score by around 25% for my bot vs Tron compared to running in RoboJogger. :(

Are you sure you're using the same scoring mechanism? I know the TCs define score as TOTAL_BULLET_DAMAGE/ROUNDS.

Yes, the setup for the RoboRunner config file is using AVERAGE_BULLET_DAMAGE. Note that the results for all the other bots in the challenge look correct. It only appears to be vs Tron for some reason, which is why I postulated it was because Tron appears to be a slow bot which may cause skipped turns.

It might be because Tron starts firing - if it doesn't get its config file which puts it in TC mode copied correctly, for instance.

Yeah, I bet Tron is firing. Pretty dumb we don't just have a non-firing version in the TCRM downloads? Or do we? I remember doing that manually for a long time, anyway. Same with DT.

Bot output doesn't go anywhere in RoboRunner. Actually not exactly sure how to catch it but it would be a nice feature. You could log stuff to files though.

Makes sense, but I checked the .data directory for tron for the 4 instances of RoboRunner that RoboJogger generates and all of them have a properties file with "challenger" set. :(