Talk:Mirage

It didn't take you long to hit your goal after all!

Indeed, entering as first in minimelee is frankly said quite humiliating for the rest of us ;-) Well done !

I'm seriously impressed with the top ten 10 in the general melee rumble with a mini. I suspect that Mirage is going to be as difficult to dethrone from the mini melee throne as Wallaby has been from the micro one. I try not to think about how badly BeepBoop is crushing everybody in the general 1v1 ...

Thanks! It did make it easier that the mini melee rumble hasn't seen active competition in a long time!

Congrats! Looking forward to a new general melee king to dethrone ScalarR ;) It's really impressive how a mini bot can do.

Ha, I don't have plans to work on that for a while but maybe one day! I am curious if single-tick could outperform classic play-it-forward for megabot melee guns.

Sounds like your gun is effectively a single tick pattern matcher, with a fixed match length of one and multiple choice?

At first I was surprised that could be effective but I suppose in melee the next state of most robots only depends on the current state (of the battlefield) so it makes some sense.

I guess in a mega bot it could be expanded to consider other elements of the battlefield state to get more accurate results?

Yes, exactly! To do multiple choice, it samples the next tick at (weighted) random rather than picking the most frequent one as in classic single tick. Definitely using more input features could help, but I think velocity/deltaHeading/acceleration are the most important features and the play-it-forward sort of implicitly captures wall features by rejecting movement trajectories that go out of bounds.

Your gun does have an excellent performance, and it is really amazing that you were able to fit it in a mini.