User:Voidious/Robocode Version Tests

1.7.1.4 Alphas

One of the changes slated for Robocode 1.7.1.4 is a new updateMovement() method, which determines the velocity of each bot based on their commands and the rules of Robocode. I'm running some extensive tests on the 1.7.1.4 Alphas and 1.6.1.4 so that we can compare. The main discussion about these changes has been taking place at Talk:Robocode/Game Physics, while some discussion of these tests is going on at User talk:Voidious/Robocode Version Tests.

The score % is for the first bot listed.

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Alphas 2, 3, 4

• Alpha 2 uses the old decel through zero rules (can go from -1 to 1 or -0.1 to 1.9).
• Alpha 3 uses the proposed new rules (splits the tick into decel and accel portions, eg -1 to 0.5 or -0.5 to 0.75).
• Alpha 4 caps maximum velocity at 1 when decel through zero (-1 to 1, -0.5 to 1, -0.1 to 1).
• Turns out all these Alphas contained an inconsistency compared to 1.6.1.4 rules, so they were scrapped for more Alphas and more testing.

	1.6.1.4	Alpha2	Alpha3	Alpha4	1.6 & A2	1.6 & A3	1.6 & A4	A2 & A3	A2 & A4	A3 & A4	Battles	Comments
Diamond vs Barracuda	99.51	N/A	99.52	N/A	N/A	+0.01	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	500
DrussGT vs Barracuda	99.15	N/A	99.15	N/A	N/A	±0.00	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	500
Diamond vs DevilFISH	96.73	N/A	96.79	N/A	N/A	+0.06	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	500
DrussGT vs DevilFISH	99.07	N/A	99.07	N/A	N/A	±0.00	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	400+
Diamond vs Komarious	70.61	70.38	71.08	70.67	-0.23	+0.47	+0.06	+0.70	+0.29	-0.41	500
DrussGT vs Ascendant	57.85	58.04	58.25	58.06	+0.19	+0.40	+0.21	+0.21	+0.02	-0.19	500
PrairieWolf vs DuelistMini	42.40	45.92	47.96	42.06	+3.52	+5.56	-0.34	+2.04	-3.86	-5.90	500	PrairieWolf has a +1/-1 vibrate mode. Both save data.
Raiko vs Toorkild	59.92	60.20	60.18	60.03	0.28	0.26	+0.11	-0.02	-0.17	-0.15	500
Raiko vs Moebius	70.93**	73.05	71.71	72.60	+2.12	+0.78	+1.67	-1.34	-0.45	+0.89	500	** 1000 battles
Toorkild vs Moebius	65.54	65.40	65.54	65.42	-0.14	±0.00	-0.12	+0.14	+0.02	-0.12	500
DrussGT vs Diamond	56.16	56.26	56.58	56.25	+0.10	+0.42	+0.09	+0.32	-0.01	-0.33	500

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Alphas 8 & 9

• Alpha 8 uses the old decel through zero rules (can go from -1 to 1 or -0.1 to 1.9).
• Alpha 9 uses the proposed new rules (splits the tick into decel and accel portions, eg -1 to 0.5 or -0.5 to 0.75).

	1.6.1.4	Alpha8	Alpha9	1.6 & A8	1.6 & A9	A8 & A9	Battles	Comments
Diamond vs Komarious	70.61	70.67	N/A	+0.06	N/A	N/A	500
DrussGT vs Ascendant	57.85	57.68	N/A	-0.17	N/A	N/A	500
PrairieWolf vs DuelistMini	42.40	44.49	N/A	+2.09	N/A	N/A	500	PrairieWolf has a +1/-1 vibrate mode. Both save data. I think there's just a weird / huge variance in one or both of these bots.
Raiko vs Moebius	70.93**	70.53	N/A	-0.40	N/A	N/A	500	** 1000 battles
DrussGT vs Diamond	56.16	56.19	N/A	+0.03	N/A	N/A	500

Bots

Bot versions used:

• Diamond 1.191
• DrussGT 1.3.8fast
• Komarious 1.88
• Ascendant 1.2.27
• Raiko 0.43
• Toorkild 0.1.1
• Moebius 2.9.3
• PrairieWolf 2.61
• DuelistMini 1.1
• Marcelo.Alpha.DevilFISH 1.3
• Barracuda 1.0