What am I missing?

So I have been gone for about a year and a half, and want to go back to this game again (guess you can never left robocode completely).

Basically, what innovations/technological breakthrough did I miss?

Not sure if you noticed, but we transitioned to LiteRumble when DarkCanuck's server went down. Sheldor and I took the nano crown with a collaboration bot, Yatagan. Nz.jdc updated LittleBlackBook's table, and wrote his own table-driven bot. They are both above Yatagan in the nanorumble, but they are sort of cheesy because they react to enemy name, not enemy behaviour. DrussGT now has a bullet-shielding mode which is tried at the beginning of each match. Chase finally found a bug in Seraphim and its APS now matches its strong PL score. I improved Neuromancer's 1v1 score a lot, and got it to 1st in melee.

I'm sure I've missed a lot of other stuff.

I just couldn't give up on that robot. Even though I wanted to. I might have to go back and look over other old robots of mine and fix errors in those, and re enter them into the rumble. Like Tyrra.

Welcome back!

• RoboRumble 1v1 crossed 1,000 participants.
• I wrote RoboRunner, a new multi-threaded battle runner, and Skotty wrote RoboJogger, a GUI version of it.
• We upgraded to MediaWiki 1.19. So the Twitter feed and bigger font got reverted and we still haven't fixed it. Need to upgrade PHP before moving past that.
• Personally, I've written/released a game called BerryBots in that time, which spawned from the Raspberry Pi discussion here at the RoboWiki. Right now working on replay support, which is almost ready (sample).

Thank you. It seems that I does miss a lot :)

This ought to cover a lot.

Skilgannon's and my bot Yatagan did quite well in the NanoRumble. My bot EpeeistMicro has a perfect PWIN (PL percentage) score in the MicroRumble. I still haven't started writing a minibot yet, but I do plan to sometime in the current century. :)