Talk:Innovations since 2005

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This has been on my mind for a while. My goal here is to note the improvements that advance the state of the art and become ubiquitous among top bots, particularly since Wave Surfing (the last huge breakthrough). I'm sure I'm missing lots of stuff. Links to creators / original discussions are lacking, too.

Some notes on things I did/didn't include:

  • I'm unsure about VCS anti-aliasing / interpolation. I do think it is a real improvement on VCS, but if it's not better than DC and only a couple bots use it, should it be here? Maybe it should, maybe not yet...
  • I still think precise MEA is an important improvement, but others disagree and not many bots do it.
  • Go-To Surfing is far from ubiquitous, but the dominant champion of 1v1 uses it, so imo it should be here.

At first, I'm hesitant to list things like LittleBlackBook or Darkcanuck's NN bots, just because they haven't influenced others much yet. This came to me as a counter-argument to "Robocode is stale, nothing left to discover!", so I tend to focus on the far-reaching improvements. But maybe that doesn't matter so much?

Feel free to add, edit, delete, discuss. =)

--Voidious 19:28, 4 March 2010 (UTC)

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