Caligula

Caligula
Author(s)	CrazyBassoonist
Extends	AdvancedRobot
Targeting	Random Linear
Movement	Multimode
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Background Information

Bot Name

Caligula

Author

CrazyBassoonist

Extends

AdvancedRobot

What's special about it?

It's very different from most of the nanos being created nowadays, and it should be pretty competitive.

Great, I want to try it. Where can I download it?

http://robocoderepository.com/BotDetail.jsp?id=3975

How competitive is it?

We'll see.

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Strategy

How does it move?

It uses a movement designed to work against HOT, and then switches to a movement designed to beat LT if it dies twice. After the fourth time it dies, it switches to ramming the opponent. This means that it gets very high scores against bad robots, and it does reasonably well against other robots too. As far as I know, this is the only robot that uses ramming as a backup strategy.

How does it fire?

I gave it a random linear gun, mainly because random linear targeting is cheap but hard to dodge all the time.

How does it dodge bullets?

See "How does it move?"

Is this robot Melee-capable?

Nope.

What does it save between rounds and matches?

The number of deaths.

Additional Information

Where did you get the name?

I figured it just kind of fit.

Can I use your code?

RWPCL

What's next for your robot?

It'll depend on how well it does.

Does it have any White Whales?

Medium-level bots with high firepower.