Robovirus

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What's special about it?: It's our first REAL bot and our first one submitted to RoboRumble.

How competitive is it?: Not extremely, but more so than we had hoped!; Currently 131st in General Melee and 132nd in General One-on-One.

How does it move?: In a One-on-One battle, it uses a basic form of Wave Surfing.; In a melee battle, it does a Minimum-Risk style movement, roughly based on Tron.

How does it fire?: In a One-on-One battle, it uses GuessFactor Targeting, more or less copied off of Kawigi's GuessFactor Targeting Tutorial.; In melee, it uses Linear Targeting.

How does the melee strategy differ from One-on-one strategy?: Different Radar, Movement, and Targeting. We basically change everything depending on how many opponents are still in the field.

In melee, how does it pick an opponent to fire at?: It tracks one enemy, but switches to a new target if it is more than (if i remember correctly) 50 or so pixels closer.

Where did you get the name?: Mashing our first names together got Virus, and then added Robo in front for fun.; I think a robovirus is actually a type of virus.

What's next for your robot?: Getting some sort of virtual bullets with Pattern Matching and/or an Anti-Surfer Gun would be nice, as our targeting fails against Wave Surfers.; We're also experimenting with a modified version of Wave Surfing, but so far it's too early to tell whether it'll work.; Our goal: Top 100 in both 1v1 and Melee RoboRumble!; We're also trying to clean up the code a bit so that we can release the source and have it make a bit of sense.