Let me know when you want to compete. I have FreeBot up and going again. Brian ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mark Mielke" <mark at mark.mielke.cc> To: <vanilla-list at us.netrek.org> Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2001 4:25 PM Subject: Re: [Vanilla List] organized, intelligent 'bots > On Tue, Dec 11, 2001 at 03:11:05PM -0500, Brian Paulsen wrote: > > Are you building your bot from scratch, or are you using somebody else's > > code as a starting point? The reason I ask is that I haven't seen that many > > bots that "just plain suck" I've seen many bots (mine included) that play > > quite well and have given INL teams a struggle. It's just that there are > > many complexities to the game and it's difficult to code all of the strategy > > in that is necessary to beat an INL team. > > It isn't exactly from scratch. I diddled with this sort of thing 10 > years ago. It is from scratch from a coding perspective. > > Many 'bots, including the "Grandfather borg", while well done, were > quite exploitable. You just had to spend a few more minutes in the > game not caring about dying, choosing instead to watch how the bot > kills you. After a while, it is quite easy to find their flaws and > exploit them. > > That being said, I would appreciate your input, or even code. The only > reason the code is starting from 'scratch', is that it is not likely > to be in a form that is compatible with anything that currently exists. > > Often code can be incorporated without limiting one to cut+paste > functionality. > > > I'd be very curious to see how well your bots do if you are starting from > > scratch. > > I am, as well. (Curious) > > Especially if you have a functioning set of bots that can compete > against it. Priority 1 is to beat existing bots. > > mark > > -- > mark at mielke.cc/markm at ncf.ca/markm at nortelnetworks.com __________________________ > . . _ ._ . . .__ . . ._. .__ . . . .__ | Neighbourhood Coder > |\/| |_| |_| |/ |_ |\/| | |_ | |/ |_ | > | | | | | \ | \ |__ . | | .|. |__ |__ | \ |__ | Ottawa, Ontario, Canada > > One ring to rule them all, one ring to find them, one ring to bring them all > and in the darkness bind them... > > http://mark.mielke.cc/ > > _______________________________________________ > vanilla-list mailing list > vanilla-list at us.netrek.org > https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/vanilla-list >