bad battles for DrussGT

re: "so far just imitating others' work with bad results."

Don't sweat it. My bot is in the top 40 now, but a year and a half ago, it was about where Viper is now. Just keep thinking and trying.. and don't be afraid to rewrite large sections of code, or the entire bot if you realize a better way to put it all together! As it stands now, deBroglie is a rewrite of a rewrite of a bot I hacked together from disparate pieces I'd done as demos for students. There's no trace of that original code, but that's the lineage.

Keep at it! :)

Nice link. =) That definitely describes Dookious. But it also describes Tron, whose major versions are left in as separate RoboRumble entries. I guess Robocoders can't agree on it either!

That's my other degree (philosophy) showing there. *grins* It is a fascinating issue, even in Robocode. The only thing that connects deBroglie now to the bot I originally named Newton is just that I've decided to consider it the same project in my head.