BotCategories

Bots often fall in this or that category when it comes to competitions:

Type of fight:

• OneOnOne: Bots that fight face to face, only two bots in the arena.
• Melee: Bots capable of facing multiple enemies. More than two bots in the arena.
• Overall: Bots suited for both 1v1 and melee fights.
• Teams.

WeightClass, measured in CodeSize:

• NanoBots: < 250
• MicroBots: < 750
• MiniBots: < 1500
• MegaBots: >= 1500

Max lines of code:

• HaikuBots: 4 lines
• SonnetBots: 14 lines

Special:

• PerceptualBots: Bots that do not store any information in-between turns
• FemtoBot: Basically rating = score / CodeSize, so the bigger the bot, the more score is needed for the same rating.
• MultiMode: Bots with multiple ways of doing things. Not specifically used in competitions.
• Survivalists: Bots focused on being the last one alive, bullet damage not required.
• JustForFun: Bots developed for amusement rather than battle.
• TechDemos: Bots built to show a special feature, and not intended for real battle.
• RamBots: Bots designed to fight at extremely close range, augmenting their score with ram damage.

Extends/implements - also see the RobocodeAPI:

• Extends Robot: Basic bots
• Extends AdvancedRobot: Includes non-blocking methods like setAhead (I think I'm going to clarify this -- Jonathan)
• Extends TeamRobot: Not really a BotCategory?. See Teams.
• Implements Droid

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Check out DroidPoet which is a PerceptualBot Robot& Droid HaikuBot. It's probably a NanoBot as well. =) -- PEZ

Last edit: Whoops, that was me. The cookie wasn't set for robowiki.net, only for robowiki.dyndns.org. -- Jonathan